[Reisen]

There's some super exciting stuff in this release, but what caught my eye was this:

> Aynchronous Request Handling (#17) > > In 0.5, Rocket will migrate to the latest asynchronous version of hyperand futures with compatibility for async/await syntax. Of utmost importance is preserving Rocket's usability. As such, these changes will be largely internal, with asynchronous I/O peeking over the covers only when explicitly desired or required. As a side effect, we expect a substantial performance boost from the migration as well as resolution to long-standing issues.

Lacking async was my main reason at the time for switching out a hobby project from Rocket to Actix, It's exciting to see that this might change soon as Rocket really just hits the nail on the head when it comes to useability. It _feels_ fantastic compared to so many frameworks both in Rust and other languages.

[woah]

I don’t really understand this. Futures don’t “peak from under the covers” they hit you over the head with syntax. And iirc Rocket uses a thread per request model.

So I’m guessing they have optimized their threaded model with futures, plus given you the ability to turn on a non blocking mode, but your routes will need to use futures if you do that?