[mjhay]

> Async programming is the area I would like to see the most improvement, especially in the standard library.

> So much concurrent and parallel Rust code relies on third-party libraries because the standard library offers primitives that work but lack the "creature comforts" that developers prefer.

This seems to be an repeated antipattern with a lot of languages/ecosystems, resulting in fragmented and half-baked solutions. A fully-featured async standard library involves making a lot of opinion-based decisions, and not everyone will be happy. But it's better for 80% of people who probably don't care that much, and nothing stops the other 20% from implementing libraries for their use-cases.

[pie_flavor]

As news of Rust's decisions several years ago reaches people only now, it is fun to watch people make predictions about 'the future' that have not been borne out in reality one smidgen. Just using the library everyone else uses has also worked for 80% of people that don't care that much.