I _love_ Rust and use it whenever I can. I still find the comments in here to be quite appropriate. Async Rust leaves me with a (subjective!) feeling that something isn't quite right. Not that I know how it _should_ be, but that feeling is very different from the non-async parts of the language that almost always leaves me with a warm fuzzy feeling of joy.

I don't know enough about the domain to be objectively helpful, so it's all wishy-washy feelings on my part. I keep reaching for orchestrating things with threads in Rust where most people would probably reach for async these days. The only language where I've felt fine embracing the blessed async system is Haskell and its green threads (which I understand come with their own host of problems).