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Sorry to spoil your axe-grinding with hard data, but the Rust async ecosystem has exploded since 2019. It is now about 5-6 times larger than it was before async

• thibran 5y ago
  That's not what I was talking about. Before async we had one ecosystem. Now we have at last three: non-async, Tokio, async-std My point is, the ecosystem experience has degraded since the async MVP is stabel.
  • pornel 5y ago
    You're conflating programming models with async runtimes, and weirdly attributing them to stabilization of a syntax sugar. The split between blocking and non-blocking code existed in Rust before stabilization of async/await (e.g. futures 0.1 existed 3 years before, and mio is older than even Rust 1.0). The only new thing is async-std, but that's not a stabilized part of Rust. It's just a 3rd party library. It may have been written anyway. It's relatively niche (1/10th of tokio), and you can safely ignore its existence (as far as I can tell every async-std-based crate supports tokio too, or has a direct tokio equivalent.) I was worried that switch from futures 0.1 to std::future would fragment the ecosystem, but fortunately the whole ecosystem moved quickly, and the switch is completely over now.