Comment by josephg
Yeah async rust is definitely the exception. That and Pin, which in my opinion totally missed the mark. The feature rust needs is the ability to have self reference in a struct. Pin is a hacky, inadequate half solution.
Yeah async rust is definitely the exception. That and Pin, which in my opinion totally missed the mark. The feature rust needs is the ability to have self reference in a struct. Pin is a hacky, inadequate half solution.
Can we all please stop complaining about async Rust and just acknowledge that the problem they were solving was both really hard and urgent for the success of the language (particularly given priorities among the most well-resourced tech companies in the late 2010s)? All things considered, I think they did a good job. I certainly wouldn't have done any better. And the feature was well thought through, with years of work before it shipped.