Futures are a cheap knock-off of lazy evaluation, and they have the same problems when reasoning about runtime performance.
Yet, people in the #rustlang community have this fixation on async code "because performance" 
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I see the cultures developing around asynchronicity as needlessly increasing the incidental complexity that newcomers to the language must face when understanding and working with the ecosystem. This is not a criticism of Rust, which I am deeply in love with, but those cultures.
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To me this is troubling on a philosophical level because I am convinced that Rust is the new language whose success could most radically improve the state of digital freedom by increasing the $/exploit targeting widely deployed infrastructure so significantly.
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