Presentation: Rust's Journey to Async/await

Rust, like most languages, is fundamentally synchronous. Over the past four years, the team has been working towards a world-class way to handle asynchronous processing. We're now in the final stretch of that work, and in the next few months, Rust will finally gain async/await. In this talk, Steve will give an overview of this history, diving into the technical details of how the design has changed, and speak to the difficulties of adding a major new feature to a programming language.