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Never snooze a future


↫ Home Never snooze a future 2026 March 2nd Huh, that's confusing, because the task ought to be able to execute other futures in that case — so why are her connections stalling out without making progress? - Barbara battles buffered streams When a future is ready to make progress, but it's not getting polled, I call that "snoozing". Snoozing is to blame for a lot of hangs and deadlocks in async Rust, including the recent "Futurelock" case study from the folks at Oxide.

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