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kaycebasques

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The post discusses pw_async2, a Rust library that provides an 'informed poll' mechanism, sparking a discussion on async programming designs and related projects like Embassy.

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skavi

4 months ago

I’ve always felt Rust’s Future was a super clean design. It’s interesting that pw_async2 makes a “Dispatcher” accessible in its Context. Earlier designs of rust’s Context did the same [0], but now it carries nothing but the Waker (and a LocalWaker technically).

[0]: https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/async-trait/text/0000-as...

nitros

4 months ago

Also might be interesting to read about: https://embassy.dev/

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