Re:A Look at Rust from 2012
by steveklabnik on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:09PM
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I mean, I'm also not saying async/await is critical for kernels. I'm only saying that "everything is an actor" isn't really possible at the language level.
Async/await is used for a lot of RTOS like things in Rust. At Oxide, we deliberately did not do that, and did something much closer to actors, actually. Both patterns are absolutely viable, for sure. But as patterns, and not as language primitives, at least on the actor side.
Async/await is used for a lot of RTOS like things in Rust. At Oxide, we deliberately did not do that, and did something much closer to actors, actually. Both patterns are absolutely viable, for sure. But as patterns, and not as language primitives, at least on the actor side.