[neandrake]

Same would be true for any resource that needs cleaned up, right? Referring to stop-polling-future as canceling is probably not good nomenclature. Typically canceling some work requires cleanup, if only to be graceful let alone properly releasing resources.

[sunshowers]

Yes, this is true of any resource. But Tokio mutexes, being shared mutable state, are inherently likely to run into bugs in production.

In the Rust community, cancellation is pretty well-established nomenclature for this.

Hopefully the video of my talk will be up soon after RustConf, and I'll make a text version of it as well for people that prefer reading to watching.

[neandrake]

Thank you, I look forward to watching your presentation.