Rust: Announcing `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits

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A new Rust blog post/announcement has been posted!

The Rust Async Working Group is excited to announce major progress towards our goal of enabling the use of async fn in traits. Rust 1.75, which hits stable next week, will include support for both -> impl Trait notation and async fn in traits.

This is a big milestone, and we know many users will be itching to try these out in their own code. However, we are still missing some important features that many users need. Read on for recommendations on when and how to use the stabilized features.

What's stabilizing

Ever since the stabilization of RFC #1522 in Rust 1.26, Rust has allowed users to write impl Trait as the return type of functions (often called "RPIT"). This means that the function returns "some type that implemen...

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