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The usual complaint is that there has been little progress on async and webdev in Rust itself since 2018 so it's odd to hear the reverse complaint.

Though I would add that Rust's async is not just about webdev; it has had success in embedded contexts e.g. the popular https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy?tab=readme-ov-file#emb...

The nature of open source is that people work on what they want to work on. People work on async because it interests them. But to the same level many people in the lang and libs team don't know async that well. You may perceive it that everyone works only on async but this is just not true.

Async is not for webdev only.