Wuyts: Why async Rust

Yoshua Wuyts gives an overview of asyncRust and why it is interesting.

Conversations around "why async" often focus on performance - atopic which is highly dependent on workloads, and results withpeople wholly talking past each other. While performance is not abad reason to choose async Rust, we often we only noticeperformance when we experience a lack of it. So I want to insteadon which features async Rust provides which aren't present innon-async Rust.