How to run two functions at same time in tokio runtime?

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#1 
use tokio::time::sleep as Tsleep;
use tokio::time::Duration as TDuration;

async fn async_foo(){
    Tsleep(TDuration::from_secs(1)).await;
    println!("foo");
}


fn sync_cook(){
    std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(5));
    println!("cooking!");
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main(){
    tokio::spawn(async move{
        let _ = async_foo();
    });
    tokio::spawn(async move{
        let _ = sync_cook();
    });
    Tsleep(TDuration::from_secs(5)).await;
}

When I run above code, it only output cooking once, how to output cooking and foo at the same time?

#2

Do not use std::thread::sleep in async code. Read this for more info.

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#3

Also, you're missing the .await for the async_foo() call

tokio::spawn(async move{
        let _ = async_foo().await;
    });

Changing that, the program outputs

foo
cooking
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#4

this is not root cause, if I change the code like:

use tokio::time::sleep as Tsleep;
use tokio::time::Duration as TDuration;

async fn async_foo(){
    Tsleep(TDuration::from_secs(2)).await;
    println!("foo");
}
fn sync_cook(){
    std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(6));
    println!("cooking!");
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main(){
    tokio::spawn(async move{
        let _ = async_foo().await;
    });
    tokio::spawn(async move{
        let _ = sync_cook();
    });
    Tsleep(TDuration::from_secs(1)).await;
}

it still can not output foo.

#5

cool, thank you very much. :gift_heart: