Boats, if you're still reading this: I don't have anything of technical substance to add to the discussion, but thanks for repeatedly explaining the rationale b

Boats, if you're still reading this: I don't have anything of technical substance to add to the discussion, but thanks for repeatedly explaining the rationale behind async Rust. And thanks for doing what you believed you had to do to make Rust a successful language, and especially, as you explained in an earlier post, for implementing the big feature that the companies who were most willing to fund Rust development wanted. I hope this can at least somewhat counterbalance all of the rants, complaints, and uninformed but overly confident comments. Edit to add: I haven't personally done much work with async Rust yet, but the thing that appeals to me about async Rust is intra-task concurrency. So I'm not just trying to counterbalance the complainers and make you feel better; I really believe that Rust's futures and async/await syntax were not a mistake.