In the first post, we looked at the relationship between generators and a more general notion of self-references. In the second post, we narrowed down exactly what problem we need to solve to make generators work, and talked about some solutions that we’ve considered but don’t feel like we could ship in the near future. In the original post, I promised that I would have a near term solution by the end of this series.…

Last time we talked about the broader problem that generators with references across yield points represent: self-referential structs. This time, I want to narrow in on the specific problem that needs to be solved to make generators work, and also discuss some ideas for solutions that I think are false starts. (I still don’t have a proposal about what to do in this post, but it will come soon enough!)…

This is the first in a series of blog posts about generators, async & await in Rust. By the end of this series, I will have a proposal for how we could expediently (within the next 12 months) bring generators, async & await to stable Rust, and resolve some of the most difficult ergonomics problems in the futures ecosystem. But that proposal is still several posts away. Before we can get to a concrete proposition, we need to understand the scope & nature of the problem we need to solve.…