Comment by no_wizard

There are other languages with green threads and folks are free to use those. Zig is trying to do interesting things with stackful coroutines.

I don't think I nor most systems programmers would have chosen rust if it required green threads instead of stackless coroutines for async. If you work on embedded or low level environments like kernels and whatnot, you need something that falls back to callbacks for async. I'm sure folks who work on servers would have been fine with green threads but they were not the target audience for rust. Being upset because you fall outside the target demographic of a particular language doesn't mean they made the wrong choice. It just means you should look for something else.

Hardware does not catches up with language requirements. If anything, it is languages/compilers that catch up with hardware, like SSE instructions and loop parallel ism.

For me the mistake that Rust made was that it tried too hard to behave like C/C++ with its single execution stack.

Ada uses two stacks allowing a callee to return a stack-allocated arrays to the caller. Not only it allows to avoid dynamic allocations in many cases where C++ allocates memory, but it also reduces the need for pointers making the code safer even without the borrow checker.

If instead of async Rust spent efforts on implementing something like that or even allow for explicit stack control from safe code so green threads or co-routines could be implemented as a library it could be more compatible with io_uring world.