rustHow to exit a thread in Rust?

Threads in Rust can be exited using the std::thread::Thread::join() method. This method will block the current thread until the thread it is called on has finished executing.

use std::thread;

let handle = thread::spawn(|| {
    println!("Hello from a thread!");
});

handle.join().unwrap();

The code above will create a new thread and execute the closure passed to thread::spawn(). The handle.join().unwrap() will block the current thread until the thread created by thread::spawn() has finished executing.

• thread::spawn(): creates a new thread and executes the closure passed to it
• handle.join(): blocks the current thread until the thread created by thread::spawn() has finished executing
• unwrap(): returns the result of the thread, or panics if the thread panicked

Helpful links

• std::thread::Thread::join()

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