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Re:Why Async Rust? by scottlamb on Sunday October 15, 2023 @07:49PM (#37894490)
> I don't think there is a timeline, but they wait at least for async fn in traits.

That was just merged! [1] It should be stable in 1.75 on December 28th.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115822

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Re:Why Async Rust? by afdbcreid on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:21PM (#37894977)
I know it was merged, but currently there is only support for statically-dispatched async fn in traits. I believe we also need dynamic dispatch to compete with the current style of `poll_X()` functions in the I/O traits.
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Re:Why Async Rust? by scottlamb on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:43PM (#37895429)
Fair enough. I'm still excited!
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