async vison doc "shiny future" blog post

[nikomatsakis]

This blog post announces the start of accepting "shiny future" stories. Like the last one, I have put it on the main rust blog, so cc @rust-lang/core for approval. I have dated the post for next Monday (2021-04-12), so as to leave time for folks to review and leave comments.

This post has a different structure than the previous one. It is shorter and more to the point, using a FAQ to help answer common questions and to direct readers to the previous post if they want to read up more on the motivation and background.

There are a few "to do" items before this is actually posted:

• Update the number of landed stories and PRs, which will likely be different;
• Update the number of collaborative writing sessions depending on what @rylev does this week;
• Perhaps add a sentence linking to an example shiny future story, we don't have any yet.

cc @rust-lang/wg-async-foundations

[ashleygwilliams]

few comments, think that structurally an FAQ in a blogpost is maybe not the right match but am curious what you think

[Mark-Simulacrum]

@nikomatsakis I think we will likely want to push out the publication date to Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest, as the edits here are somewhat amorphous at present, and a (shorter) re-review after the edits is likely necessary.

[nikomatsakis]

Hmm, I had hoped to circle back to this on Friday or over the weekend, but I didn't wind up having time for that. Re-reading the post, I think you all were right about the FAQ not being the most compelling format. I've reworked it and I've adjusted the date to 2021-04-14 (Wednesday), as @Mark-Simulacrum suggested.

Thanks for the feedback @ashleygwilliams and @Mark-Simulacrum. I've removed the FAQ completely -- most of that material was already present on the site anyhow (I'll add what was missing there).

[ashleygwilliams]

LGTM, also i just wanna share that i think this process is really great and what you're all doing seems exciting- looking forward to hearing more :)

[Mark-Simulacrum]

Left two comments - but I wouldn't view them as blockers, just nice to have potentially. I think we're good to go merging this tomorrow.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

This looks great! I am planning to merge in ~1.5 hours, around 11am ET.