[barakm]

Hear, hear

The worst part of Rust, too, is that async/await is tacked on— and it’s just a bad primitive to start with.

I have many more thoughts on this that I might like to blog about, but it can be improved by having a async runtime of some kind (we don’t call malloc a runtime, but it is— and you need something similar for ergonomic async) — to wit, the de facto pseudo-answer for this in Rust is tokio (which should just be promoted to the stdlib, at this point; the vast majority of async code depends on it’s particularities).

It’s also causes quote-unquote “function coloring problems” left, right, and center — which is also avoidable. Just for kicks, consider a language with “call-async”/“yield”. Tie that in with a runtime and this whole topic becomes much, much, cleaner. Async at the callsite! (This is the blog I’ve been meaning to write)