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Why you might actually want async in your project
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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I've had just this case. Wanted to use a particular crate that uses async and it's forcing me to do lots of async things I'm unfamiliar with. I resent it a little, especially for a program that I'm fairly sure will not require concurrency of this sort.
At the same time, maybe I'll get used to async rust if I use it enough. But so far I'm not having a lot of fun with it.
It's actually not that hard to use async libraries in sync context. I rarely need that but if I do, I just pull in an executor and write a little extension trait for futures that lets me call .block() instead of .await.