Comment by exfalso

It's interesting to see an almost marketing-like campaign to save face for async/await. It is very clear from my experience that it was not only a technical mistake, it also cost the community dearly. Instead of focusing on language features that are actually useful, the Rust effort has been sidetracked by this mess. I'm still very hopeful for the language though, and it is the best thing we've got at the moment. I'm just worried that this whole fight will drag on forever. P.S the AsyncWrite/AsyncRead example looks reasonable, but in fact you can do the same thing with threads/fds as long as you restrict yourself to *nix.