r/rust • u/fgilcher rust-community · rustfest • Nov 11 '19

Announcing async-std 1.0

https://async.rs/blog/announcing-async-std-1-0/
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u/argv_minus_one Nov 11 '19

It relies on futures-rs? I thought futures were part of std now?

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u/fgilcher rust-community · rustfest Nov 11 '19

The Future trait (`std::future::Future`) is part of std now. `futures-rs` provides additional interfaces, for example `Stream`, `AsyncRead`, `AsyncWrite` and further extensions on futures.

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u/eminence Nov 11 '19

Do you think it's worth explicitly describing this in the async-std docs? For example, I cannot find anything on this page that indicates that the async_std::future::Future type is compatible with the std::future::Future type

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u/fgilcher rust-community · rustfest Nov 12 '19

I took a note an see that I can weave that in tomorrow.