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		mseepgood on Dec 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Portable and Interoperable Async Rust All design trade-offs have a cost. In this case the costs are reduced usability and async struggles.

carlmr on Dec 8, 2021 [–]

Zero-cost abstractions is used to mean zero runtime cost (in release builds), so if an abstraction would break that it wouldn't be suitable for this goal.

Like adding a GC for the async feature.

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