Re:The Rust I wanted had no future
by bsder on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:38PM
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> That said, I still hate async with a passion, it makes the language more complex and not very elegant (i.e. function coloring).
async in Rust is a popularity issue even more than a technical issue.
A whopping amount of people who are coming to Rust are doing so because they want a good ecosystem for implementing network service servers. Rust/cargo/crates hits the sweet spot for them.
I am with you that I loathe async/await in Rust. However, I also have to acknowledge that without async/await, Rust is a vastly less popular language.
All the other uses of systems programming are simply dwarfed by number of people building network services. That's just the sad reality.
async in Rust is a popularity issue even more than a technical issue.
A whopping amount of people who are coming to Rust are doing so because they want a good ecosystem for implementing network service servers. Rust/cargo/crates hits the sweet spot for them.
I am with you that I loathe async/await in Rust. However, I also have to acknowledge that without async/await, Rust is a vastly less popular language.
All the other uses of systems programming are simply dwarfed by number of people building network services. That's just the sad reality.