Agree. I was starting with Rust a couple of times, but complicated async IO was exactly the reason I waited. Especially when knowing that async/await is coming

Agree. I was starting with Rust a couple of times, but complicated async IO was exactly the reason I waited. Especially when knowing that async/await is coming there was zero reasons to learn the old way. But even when it hit nightly channel, it was impossible to use until major libraries expose the new API. So waiting now until Tokio and other mentioned libraries fully implement this. The next year is likely going to be the year of Rust, at least for me.