After reading boat’s excellent post on asynchronous destructors, I thought it might be a good idea to write some about async fn in traits. Support for async fn in traits is probably the single most common feature request that I hear about. It’s also one of the more complex topics. So I thought it’d be nice to do a blog post kind of giving the “lay of the land” on that feature – what makes it complicated? What questions remain open?

I wanted to give an update on the status of the “async-await foundations” working group. This post aims to cover three things:

• the “async await MVP” that we are currently targeting;
• how that fits into the bigger picture;
• and how you can help, if you’re so inclined;

Current target: async-await MVP

We are currently working on stabilizing what we call the async-await MVP – as in, “minimal viable product”. As the name suggests, the work we’re doing now is basically the minimum that is needed to “unlock” async-await. After this work is done, it will be easier to build async I/O based applications in Rust, though a number of rough edges remain.