When I began learning Rust, I had several expectations. I figured that I would be a little less productive writing code, in exchange for memory safety and C-like performance. What I did not expect, was that I would actually be more productive writing…

For just about as long as I’ve been working on async Rust, the topic of scoped tasks has come up. These are async tasks that borrow from their environment, and they would come in handy in a lot of situations.
Last year the standard library stabilized thread::scope…