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Rust's Journey to Async/Await
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Steve Klabnik walks through the history of Rust and how its design evolved toward async/await, including the alternatives tried and dropped. He also discusses the difficulty of adding a major feature to a language.
HN points to it to show how deliberately the Rust team arrived at async/await and why it was chosen over alternatives like green threads.
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