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Surviving Rust async interfaces

I used to be afraid of async Rust. It’s easy to get into trouble!

But thanks to the work done by the whole community, async Rust is getting easier to use every week. One project I think is doing particularly great work in this area is async-std.

Let’s say we want to compute the SHA3-256 hash of a file. It’s very easy to do with synchronous I/O: