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Mon 26 Sep 2022

Why Async Rust

I often find async Rust to be misunderstood. Conversations around "why async" often focus on performance 1 - a topic which is highly dependent on workloads, and results with people wholly talking past each other. While performance is not a bad reason to choose async Rust, we often we only notice performance when we experience a lack of it. So I want to instead on which features async Rust provides which aren't present in non-async Rust. Though we'll talk a bit about performance too at the end of this post.

Source: Why Async Rust, an article by Yoshua Wuyts.