[the__alchemist]

I had a similar reaction, and assumed I'm not the target audience. (Including skimming the examples folder and not being sure where I would use one of them) I have a hard time understanding the purpose of these abstract libraries; I assume people who have had the problems they solve recognize their utility.

As a reference point for rust libs I've worked with recently: I see things like EGUI: This clearly is a library that allows you to add a GUI to programs. Or Bio: This lets you read and write FASTA format DNA etc sequences, find matches in sequences etc. Bincode: Provides a "derive" that allows you to easily serialize data to and from binary formats. Or the various embedded infrastructure libs that provide high-level APIs for performing hardware options. (I/O, ADCs, send a packet over USB or a radio etc) By contrast to these and every other lib I've worked with, Swim is abstract.

I start wondering if I'm too dumb or otherwise incapable of reasoning abstracting to understand the Async part of Rust's ecosystem.