<ul><li>Asynchronous programming comes with certain complexities, and it's easy to make mistakes when using async in Rust.</li><li>Accidentally performing synchronous blocking operations in asynchronous code is a major pitfall. It undermines the advantages of async programming and causes performance bottlenecks.</li><li>Forgetting to use .await will result in the Future not being executed at all.</li><li>Excessively spawning lightweight tasks introduces overhead from task scheduling and context switching, which can actually reduce performance.</li></ul>

Rust Concurrency: Common Async Pitfalls Explained

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