On: How to think about async/await in Rust

[duped]

> So it's equivalent to async, but it's still synchronous. Nice.

Based on your description this is equivalent to async/await implemented with callbacks but not async/await implemented via polling.

[gavinhoward → duped]

Do you mean polling, as in calling poll()? Or polling, as in continuously checking if something is finished?

[duped → gavinhoward]

The latter.