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		alexchamberlain on Dec 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Monoio – A thread-per-core Rust async runtime with... Async runtimes are just wrappers around the underlying async technology, like epoll, kqueue and io_uring. They give structure in a similar way if/for/while put structure around the underlying PC jumps.

errantmind on Dec 9, 2021 [–]

Yes, but they also introduce a lot of complexity to the developer experience. It is turtles all the way down with async code, as they say

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