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Hi, you might be interested in a crate I wrote called desync: https://docs.rs/desync/0.3.0/desync/ - it provides a very simple yet expressive API for performing asynchronous operations and has full support for the futures crate. It can be learned really quickly.

Desync takes a slightly different approach to asynchronous programming: instead of being based around the idea of scheduling operations on threads, and then synchronising data across those threads, it's based on the idea of scheduling operations on data.

There's only two basic operations: 'desync' runs an operation on some data in the background, and 'sync' runs one synchronously.

All operations are run in order and 'sync' returns a value so it's a way to retrieve data from an asynchronous operation. It's sort of like setting up some threads with some data protected by a mutex and sending results between them using mpsc channels, except without the need to build any of the scaffolding. ('sync' also makes borrowing data from one task to use in another effortless)