scalafutures

An Introduction to Scala Futures

• A Future is a reference to the result of an asynchronous computation. In other words, a placeholder for a value that will be available at some point in future, as a result of some concurrent computation.

Key points in this tutorial:

1. Intro to Scala Futures and Promises
2. Creating Futures
3. Accessing the result of a Future by blocking
4. Accessing the result of a Future asynchronously : Specifying Callbacks on Futures

You can fork this repository and play with the example code. If you have sbt installed, running sbt gen-idea in the project directory with generate the intelliJ project for it.