Comment by davidhs

This article feels overblown. Is async Rust perfect? No, far from it. It feels like a MVP that Rust's developers have neglected for a while. Hopefully picking up some steam these days with partial implementation of async functions in traits. But there still problems with it.

Async Rust is rather nice to use when you're writing a web server. Structuring your code in an async manner is honestly very useful. Writing a composite Future or a Future state machine by hand is super tedious. Async makes most of that pain go away.