> ... I would like to see async/await style syntactic sugar over futures down the road to make it easier to write code that looks blocking but actually isn't...

> ... I would like to see async/await style syntactic sugar over futures down the road to make it easier to write code that looks blocking but actually isn't.... Would a Scala-style 'for' comprehension achieve the same thing while also being more generally applicable? Scala achieves this by using instance methods 'map', 'flatMap' and 'withFilter'. Personally I think Rust should just lift the sugar wholesale :-)