[weiming]

As a newcomer to Rust, wishing that this post was one of the first ones I've read about this topic. It took scouring through many many posts, some of them here on HN, to be able to grasp some of the same idea. (I may not be alone, judging from the very long discussion the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20719095)

[hathawsh]

Development of high quality async support in Rust is happening right now, so remember to wear a hard hat. ;-) I like to watch https://areweasyncyet.rs/ and https://this-week-in-rust.org/ to see where things are.

[steveklabnik]

Part of this is just that the design has been in the works for four years and has changed significantly during that time; it’s only now that things are almost stable that it’s worthwhile to write these kinds of things.

[GolDDranks]

Well, it's got still three months until it lands stable, maybe it's just that the time hasn't been ripe for great, understandable posts about the feature until recently.