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by sujayakar 977 days ago
as someone who's followed along (in large production systems) from `eventual` to a large combinator-based `futures`-0.1 system to async/await today, I really enjoyed this post and all its historical context.

despite its complexity and slight ergonomic annoyances, async rust is a monumental achievement: safe userspace concurrency without heap allocation!