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My thought too, was 'my favorite part of Rust'. But the second thought was 'I'm excited to see it becoming even better'.

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They've definitely earned some credit in my eyes for the async/await syntax. There was quite a bit of pushback for deviating from the norm there, but after using it for a few months other languages async/await just feels clunky to me now. Rust error handling is the best I've used but if there's a way to make it better then I'm up for it.

As someone who was on the fence about it, I feel exactly the same. The way the Rust maintainers and proponents of post-fix await helped create broader community consensus was impressive in itself too.

I think that compromise was brilliant, by the way.

The only other C-family language with that syntax (dot followed by keyword) I know of is Java (where you can write foobarbaz.class; "class" is a language keyword) and it always looked weird.

The Rust maintainers found a great use for it: getting chaining (foo.await?.bar()?.await...) without adding a new postfix "sigil".

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