This is possible, just requires uncancelable futures. And this is something the async wg actively works on: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap/

This is possible, just requires uncancelable futures. And this is something the async wg actively works on: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap/scopes.html https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap/scopes.h.... Also, unsafe `forget()` does not help because destructors can be sidestepped in many ways, for example creating a `Rc` cycle.