He went down the wrong path, but at the same time Rust didn’t do anything to make async code easier to write. You just had to call libc::select and std::thread:

He went down the wrong path, but at the same time Rust didn’t do anything to make async code easier to write. You just had to call libc::select and std::thread::spawn and whatnot, with all of the unsafe blocks that implies. These days there are about 47 different crates that can help you do it, all of them a lot nicer than that.