Rust Pin and Unpin Explained with Live Coding

Jon Gjengset · Tutorial · 3 h 4 min · 2019 · YouTube title: The Why, What, and How of Pinning in Rust

Why it's here

HN treats it as the definitive resource for understanding Pin semantics and lists it among async Rust learning materials.

What it covers

Jon Gjengset's long live-coding stream explains Rust's Pin and Unpin types: why they exist, how they work, and how they connect to futures and async/await. It also covers moving from pre-pinning code to the new model.