Niko Matsakis announces a new series of recorded video interviews called 'Async Interviews', aimed at exploring what the Rust community should prioritize now that async-await has stabilized. The series will feature conversations with key contributors across the async ecosystem. Two main themes are identified: improving interoperability (e.g., stabilizing traits like Stream, AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, or promoting the futures crate as a standard) and extending expressive power (e.g., async fn in traits, async closures, async destructors). The first interview will cover Async I/O and WebAssembly with Alex Crichton and Nick Fitzgerald. The author also calls for help cataloging design discussions in the #wg-async-foundations Zulip stream.
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First video: Rust and WebAssemblyWhat videos will come after that?Creating design notesSo what are the things we might do now that async-await is stable?Improving interoperabilityImproving expressive power, convenience, and ergonomicsConclusionComments?Footnotes24 Impressions