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I feel like there would be a HUGE amount of ecosystem value for Rust and async/await, if there was funding and the right dev(s) available to focus on improving: * Memory usage + copies of futures/async fns: particularly wrt overlapping data across yield * Improving codegen size/perf * opt-footguns

If we’re wishlisting async improvements we’d like to see, I would love it if the ecosystem were a bit more agnostic when it comes to async runtimes. At Zed we run into a lot of headaches because we have our own async runtimes, which can make it hard to consume popular crates that are tied to tokio.

well, definitely requires design work, and maybe even MCPs, etc. But less "user facing stability + API design work", which can make things harder to commit to if they have longer term stability commitments than "how the compiler does things today".

Ah, I somehow missed you were focused specifically on improvements in the compiler itself 😄