Meh. You often reply prolifically in threads that mention Java, defend/praise it profusely, and also seem to be very knowledgeable about the language as well as the JVM. So it's not entirely an insult when I call you a "Java guy".

But you're over-reading into my defense of Rust. My point is that the specific things you criticized as taking a long time for Rust are not actually taking a long time. My point with poking Java, specifically, is that Java is going on 30 years old and doesn't yet have an analogous feature. Moreover, since we're talking about Kernel dev, do C or C++ have a standard async runtime? Considering that there's little-to-no prior art for doing the kind of async API Rust wants without active garbage collection, I'd assert that it's hard to criticize how long it's taking. Do you know how long it "should" take? If so, how?