This is cool and it's nice to see some acknowledgement and self reflection.

I actually like async Rust and I feel that they made the right decisions there. It's amazing that I can use similar constructs for a web server as well as a small embedded board. But the low level Futures stuff does get hairy. I still don't really get the relationship between Pin and Unpin, and any time I have to write a Tower Service by hand it feels arcane. Fortunately I rarely have to go down to that level.

The tacit knowledge is interesting. Is there an ecosystem that doesn't have that to some degree? Node and Python feel even worse to me, though I admit I don't work with those as much. Still, if I ever have to look for a Node library, I get worried that I might be inadvertently installing some malware. That said, I am about to sit down with one of my juniors to start on a new Rust project, mainly because I want to help setup the initial crates (tokio, tracing, anyhow, clap, etc...). Efforts like blessed.rs are a good start. Or maybe there are some good "starter kits" using cargo-generate?