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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by oconnor663 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#21797162)
> should be resolved ASAP

I'm not sure having multiple runtimes is such a problem. The Rust async IO model was explicitly designed to accommodate different runtimes. There are a lot of tradeoffs around how a runtime does multi-threading, for example, and embedded systems may also do their own thing. Tokio vs async-std might or might not make sense as a long term split, but I think it's too early to say.

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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by xiphias2 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:03PM (#21797239)
I think the main clash was not about runtime differences but about the interface incompatibility (futures.rs)

There's a bug for it in Tokio, but it's low priority as far as I know.

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/1297

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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by steveklabnik on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:20PM (#21797383)
It's not particularly low priority https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/1744

(See the last section in particular)

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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by twic on Sunday December 15, 2019 @04:17PM (#21799052)
This is a great thread! Lots of different perspectives on a difficult technical problem, plus appearances from many of my favourite Rust characters: we've got Ralf telling everyone that only abstract machines exist, boats turning up halfway through to contradict everyone, and Douman dropping by to offer the unhelpful C++ perspective.
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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by xiphias2 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:54PM (#21797648)
Oh, so there's a pull request that I didn't see, the bugs don't show that it's being worked on.

I understand that there are lots of hard technical issues to be resolved, it's just the visibility of this pull request wasn't that good.

Thanks for the answer!

Very interesting thread.

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Re:Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/awai... by Argorak on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#21797570)
> I think the main clash was not about runtime differences but about the interface incompatibility (futures.rs)

There is a huge amount of complaints just fundamentally about async-std's existence, though.

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