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>>lukast+(OP)
I hope that someday, we can have a Rust-like language without async.

Bonus points if it has the ability for users to define static analysis a la borrow checking.

>>gavinh+tc
Async programming is beautiful. It’s the easiest and most natural way to do multiple things at the same time in single threaded code.

Async makes things possible that are hard or impossible to do with synch programming.

It’s a real game changer for python especially. Cant comment on rust, hopefully its implementation is smooth.

>>andrew+Hd
Is it really though? All I personally care for when it comes to "doing multiple things at the same time" is frankly Rust's scoped threads API: Create N threads, have them perform some computations, then join them at the end of the scope.

How is this not more natural than creating various state machines and passing around all sorts of weird highly abstract Future-objects?