Making Progress on AsyncIterator — by Jack O'Connor — Seattle Rust User Group, August 2026

A brief introduction to the Stream and AsyncIterator traits, an example of a deadlock they are vulnerable to today, and a draft RFC that adds a poll_progress method to fix these deadlocks. Links: • Draft RFC: https://github.com/oconnor663/rfcs/blob/poll_progress/text/0000-poll-progress.md • Related blog post from Jack's previous talk: https://jacko.io/snooze.html Seattle Rust User Group: • https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Rust-Meetup/ • https://discord.gg/4pDnjgaEV6