On: Writing a Microservice in Rust

[anentropic]

I've never touched Rust or Diesel... but what is the point of a synchronous library that makes blocking calls _and returns futures_?

(I mean - why futures, if the call was blocking and presumably have a real result to return?)

[Sean1708 → anentropic]

Diesel doesn't return futures, the author of the blog post returned a future and the person that you commented on is pointing out that that's pointless because Diesel is synchronous.

[rejschaap → anentropic]

Wild guess here, but it might make it compatible with frameworks or middleware that expects futures.