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by jnetterf 2605 days ago
While there might be a better syntax if you only care about this one feature, async/await needs to fit into an existing language, and this syntax makes sense with the rest of Rust.

This syntax makes it clear that’s it’s not a function or macro invocation, works the same way as ‘?’, and allows for clear and concise chaining.