I should clarify the "remove async IO" as the decision to not include an event-loop primitive in the core language or stdlib, which is tantamount to complaining

I should clarify the "remove async IO" as the decision to not include an event-loop primitive in the core language or stdlib, which is tantamount to complaining about GC not being part of Rust core :) Metal IO is an awesome library as well: https://github.com/carllerche/mio https://github.com/carllerche/mio