Chris Krycho on Nostr: I *just* realized why #Rust futures do not implement `Display` or even `Debug`: ...
I *just* realized why #Rust futures do not implement `Display` or even `Debug`: because Rust futures are lazy and you would have to poll them to do that. Even if you could manage the plumbing (!), printing a future would poll it, which could change the behavior of the system!
(File under: maybe this should have been obvious, but I never actually stopped to reason through it until just now!)
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