You might want to look at the work the Async Foundations Working Group[1] is doing, there are indeed lots of things in flight to make the "shiny future" experie

You might want to look at the work the Async Foundations Working Group[1] is doing, there are indeed lots of things in flight to make the "shiny future" experience[2] better than it is today. When async/await landed in 2018, it was an MVP. Some things have improved since, but it is incomplete. I believe the pushback you see is not "denial that it sucks", but rather an attempt to add nuance to critiques. Claiming that it is unusable or useless, like some do, is hyperbolic. There are plenty of things to fix, and people are working on some of them[3]. I also believe that landing the feature in 2018 was the right call. The parts that are pain points are features that are missing, but nothing in the currently stabilized version of the feature preclude filling those gaps. If it hadn't stabilized, what you would see is 1) many more people on nightly (which isn't ideal) and 2) a less battle tested language feature and crate ecosystem around this. The developer experience of using async/await isn't as good as sync Rust, but it'll get better. I can point at a ton of merged PRs over the past four years as historical evidence to back that claim. And any improvement done for the underlying features that async/await uses, the result is much better experience in sync Rust too! I remember back in 2017 I spent a ton of time on improving trait bound diagnostics because until then I saw them as an "advanced feature" which didn't need immediate focus, but async/await put them front and center. The resulting work improved things for everyone, and is still ongoing to this day. [1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/welcome.html https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/welcome.html [2]: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/shiny_future/users_manual.html https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/shiny_future/use... [3]: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap.html https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap.html