absurd-future

A future adapter that turns a future that never resolves (i.e., returns Infallible) into a future that can resolve to any type.

This is useful in scenarios where you have a task that runs forever (like a background service) but need to integrate it into an API that expects a specific return type, such as tokio::task::JoinSet.

For a detailed explanation of the motivation behind this crate and the concept of uninhabited types in Rust async code, see the blog post: How to use Rust's never type (!) to write cleaner async code.

Usage

For a complete, runnable example of how to use this crate with tokio::task::JoinSet, please see the example file: examples/tokio.rs.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.