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 Please stop writing these: https://corrode.dev/blog/async/

This teaches you exactly one thing about async rust (futures must be polled to do work) 90% into the article and the rest is just... conjecture? Mourning async-std? Quoting other poorly researched pieces? 
 @0d50376e this might be a bad question but as someone who finds async rust confusing and who (I think) has no real need to use it, do you think there's a reason for me to learn about async rust? 

i've been trying on and off for years to find a small subset of rust that I can actually get comfortable with and I haven't yet been able to figure out which parts of Rust I want to learn vs ignore