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async-task is one of the most complicated crates in the smol ecosystem. But, fundamentally, it’s just a future on the heap. I pride myself on smol packages being very easy to parse for anyone with a beginner’s level of experience in Rust. By that I mean, if you want to know how smol works, it should be very easy to pick up the source code, read through it, and understand how each individual part w

A common refrain is that threads can do everything that async/await can, but simpler. So why would anyone choose async/await? This is a common question that I’ve seen a lot in the Rust community. Frankly, I completely understand where it’s coming from. Rust is a low-level language that doesn’t hide the complexity of coroutines from you. This is in opposition to languages like Go, where async happe

In the eternal quest to rewrite everything in Rust, even the C standard library isn’t safe from carcinisation. Modern Rust programs are, for the most part, written mostly in Rust. For networking applications, the entire asynchronous stack is Rusty; no libuv in sight, only mio and polling. There is a robust rendering stack based on tiny-skia and cosmic-text. Even if you need FFI, the story is still