[ori_b]

Futures are nicely equivalent to one shot channels with threads.

[pornel]

Not quite: Rust futures also have immediate cancellation and easy timeouts that can be imposed externally on any future.

In threads that perform blocking I/O you don't get that, and need to support timeouts and cancellation explicitly in every blocking call.

[littlestymaar]

With a nice syntax sugar on top, but yeah pretty much.