Pinning (self-referential futures)

Rust's Pin/Unpin mechanism guarantees a value's memory address stays fixed, making the self-referential state machines that async functions compile into sound.

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Connected concepts

Poll-based futures, Async runtime, Send + Sync marker traits, Cancellation safety, Memory safety