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19 November 2025

  • curprev 08:3308:33, 19 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,379 bytes +8,379 Created page with "When I first heard the word Pin, I thought: 500px “Great. Another obscure Rust type that exists just to ruin my compile.” And I wasn’t entirely wrong. The first time I met Pin<T>, it was wrapped around some Future type deep inside an async function’s generated code. I stared at it, Googled it, and closed the tab in panic.
But months later, when I started digging into how async/await actually works under the hood — and..."
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