Such an insane amount of work to avoid fixing the real problem: the inefficiency of threads.
All async code -- all of it -- is a hack to implement lightweight threads through a lot of syntactic sugar for state management. In a language like Rust it adds a ton of complexity that simply doesn't need to exist without it.
Fixing the efficiency and scaling issues of threads would make all of this just go away. Poof. Gone.
It's a bit like the trillion dollar mistake of "null" in languages like Java-- a ton of complexity that results from one design decision (or in this case lack thereof).
All async code -- all of it -- is a hack to implement lightweight threads through a lot of syntactic sugar for state management. In a language like Rust it adds a ton of complexity that simply doesn't need to exist without it.
Fixing the efficiency and scaling issues of threads would make all of this just go away. Poof. Gone.
It's a bit like the trillion dollar mistake of "null" in languages like Java-- a ton of complexity that results from one design decision (or in this case lack thereof).