Re:How to think about `async`/`await` in Rust
by ilyt on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @12:13PM
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I think that's spot on.
More mature model of that is message passing like in Erlang or in a bit more bastardized version, in Golang. And it works there because you can write "normal" code with no colored functions and other baggage that JS-like async brings with it. And it works beautifully on multi-core machines.
async is just strict, shitty subset of that where you're limited either by bad implementation (any single-process scripting language) or language limitations (no GC in Rust would make Erlang/Go-like message passing much harder).
More mature model of that is message passing like in Erlang or in a bit more bastardized version, in Golang. And it works there because you can write "normal" code with no colored functions and other baggage that JS-like async brings with it. And it works beautifully on multi-core machines.
async is just strict, shitty subset of that where you're limited either by bad implementation (any single-process scripting language) or language limitations (no GC in Rust would make Erlang/Go-like message passing much harder).