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0 pointsnicoburns6y ago0 comments

The library support's not quite there yet. But I'd bet on it being pretty good by the end of the year. A lot of popular libraries have async support on their master branches.

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asdkhadsj6y ago

Agreed - just trying to temper expectations. I'd hate for new users to come in and be frustrated due to implied "completeness" of Async. While Async itself might be "complete", as a broad concept it really needs so much more to be end-user complete.

Traits are a big one for me. Though, I've seen good things with the Async Trait Macro libraries. So hopefully those do good.

It doesn't make this Async-Stable event any less big of course, not trying to downplay it. We can't really move forward without this, so I'm super happy to see it merged! I'm just hoping to manage expectations :)

estebank6y ago

It is a good idea to tempter expectations.

1) this is an MVP, some features like you mentioned are not yet implemented

2) the echosystem was preparing for this release but it will likely have a bit of churn until things settle down now that the feature is in stable

3) there was a lot of diagnostics work to make the feature minimally understandable when something is incorrect, but it will be a source of frustration because it's not as polished as other constructs that have had the benefit of several releases and us seeing how they were misused to have targeted errors. Some things are already tackled in the new beta, but I foresee a lot of work ahead of us.

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