I suppose async web servers is the poster child of async, and drove a lot of the development. However, then _everything_ went async, adding the cognitive overhead of dealing with Rust async throughout the ecosystem, whether needed or not.

In short, it still feels like a leaky abstraction: marvelous to look at working code, but errors (both compile and run-time) expose the underlying machinery underneath the syntactical sugar.

This is probably heresy, but as a former Rust dev I'm enjoying web-services in Go more these days.