Slightly off topic, but: i noticed more and more rust frameworks using async. I was under the impression that most of the time async makes programming much harder, while increasing peak performance. But is that trade off worth it for most people?
I never use async when given the choice. The syntax hides away the asynchronous nature of the code so well that I frequently use it incorrectly.
I much prefer threads, which are convenient to use in Rust anyway. Is it possible to go faster? Maybe, but how often is it really a bottleneck given how fast Rust already is?
