An article titled Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming came out today and it's getting a lot of attention. I have a feeling that it's viewed in a wrong context, so I'd like to comment on the issue raised there. A lot of the comments to the article are in a tone of "this is precisely the reason why I don't learn Rust, it's just too hard" or "just don't use async, it's too hard, ot