Understanding Pinning and Self-Referential Futures in Rust
In Rust, an async fn functions as a generator for a state machine. Rather than executing the logic immediately, it returns an anonymous type that implements the Future trait.
use std::future::Future;
async fn compute_value() -> u32 {
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}
The semantics of a Future represent a value that might become available eventually. These objects ...
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:23:38 +0000 by gikon