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0 pointskprotty2y ago0 comments

> That would be useful, but I wouldn't call the lack of it "half-baked", since no other mainstream language has it either. It's just a nice-to-have.

Golang supports running asynchronous code in defers, similar with Zig when it still had async.

Async-drop gets upgraded from a nice-to-have into an efficiency concern as the current scheme of "finish your cancellation in Drop" doesn't support borrowed memory in completion-based APIs like Windows IOCP, Linux io_uring, etc. You have to resort to managed/owned memory to make it work in safe Rust which adds unnecessary inefficiency. The other alternatives are blocking in Drop or some language feature to statically guarantee a Future isn't cancelled once started/initially polled.

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pkolaczk2y ago

> Golang supports running asynchronous code in defers, similar with Zig when it still had async.

So does Rust. You can run async code inside `drop`.

kprottyOP2y ago

To run async in Drop in rust, you need to use block_on() as you can't natively await (unlike in Go). This is the "blocking on Drop" mentioned and can result in deadlocks if the async logic is waiting on the runtime to advance, but the block_on() is preventing the runtime thread from advancing. Something like `async fn drop(&mut self)` is one way to avoid this if Rust supported it.

pkolaczk2y ago

You need to `block_on` only if you need to block on async code. But you don't need to block on order to run async code. You can spawn async code without blocking just fine and there is no risk of deadlocks.

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0 pointskprotty2y ago0 comments

> That would be useful, but I wouldn't call the lack of it "half-baked", since no other mainstream language has it either. It's just a nice-to-have.

Golang supports running asynchronous code in defers, similar with Zig when it still had async.

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pkolaczk2y ago

> Golang supports running asynchronous code in defers, similar with Zig when it still had async.

So does Rust. You can run async code inside `drop`.

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