https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures/ is a very good read. From outside rust, the only take on async that went viral enough that I read it was "what color is your function?" Although it was about the javascript world, I was exposed to it as a takedown of async/await in rust.
This post goes quite deep into another framing: if we accept that there is a "color" tradeoff, how is it justified, what do we get out of it? Quite a lot of things, I've learned. Still a significant tradeoff, but I get it now.
