Glossary
If you follow discussions in the async ecosystem you're likely to find acronyms being tossed around, many of which refer to language features that are in-progress. What follows is a best-effort list of those acronyms and links to resources discussing the language features.
AFIT - async fn in trait
- RFC #3185
- Allows static dispatch of
async fns in traits
RPITIT - return position impl trait in traits
- RFC #3425
- Allows
impl traitas a return type in trait definitions
RTN - return type notation
- Tracking Issue: rust#109417
- Experimental, pre-RFC feature providing bounds for return types on
async fns
TAIT - type alias impl trait
- Tracking Issue: rust#63063
- Allows the ability to write
type Foo = impl Bar