Use in async and/or tokio

[computerquip]

Is there any way to use this functionality using tokio in an asynchronous manner?

[csnover]

It should be possible to use binrw with tokio by using tokio::task::spawn_blocking or similar.

[dizda]

There's no way to read/write asynchronously?

[kitlith]

Not at the current moment. That's waiting on either someone who wants to implement it with #[async_trait], or language support for async in traits.

(aside, I'm not sure if there's a good way to turn either async functions or sync functions into eachother, which means that if binrw tried to be both, manual trait implementations would essentially have to be written twice. guess we have another argument for effect generics >_>)

[dizda]

Thank you for the honest response.

[csnover]

For anyone who is interested in a more detailed write-up on async library support in Rust, the blog post The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust provides more information about why it is not so simple right now.