On: How to think about async/await in Rust

[cgh]

Correct, I believe it originated with Microsoft via .Net in the mid-2000s and was picked up by the JS ecosystem much later. The fact that Microsoft had a hand in async/await’s emergence may influence how people feel about it.

[bluepod4 → cgh]

> The fact that Microsoft had a hand in async/await’s emergence may influence how people feel about it.

I can see this.

[guntars → bluepod4]

This whole thread reads like backlash to the async hype, not so much the merits of the paradigm itself.

[bluepod4 → guntars]

Yep