Async/Await I: Self-Referential Structs

Posted on January 25, 2018 by woboats@gmail.com (boats)

This is the first in a series of blog posts about generators, async & await in Rust. By the end of this series, I will have a proposal for how we could expediently (within the next 12 months) bring generators, async & await to stable Rust, and resolve some of the most difficult ergonomics problems in the futures ecosystem. But that proposal is still several posts away. Before we can get to a concrete proposition, we need to understand the scope & nature of the problem we need to solve.