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I'm trying to store my coroutine in a heap-allocated struct (or just heap-allocate the coroutine) and pass borrowed inputs to it in run_until_stall.

As far as I understand, this is not possible with the current API. The problem is the type parameter of Cosync. If my input has borrowed bits, I need a type parameter like:

struct MyInput<'a> {
    borrowed_bit: &'a MyBorrowedData,
    other_stuff: OtherStuff,
}

That type parameter that propogates into all the references to Cosync:

type MyCoro<'a> = Cosync<MyInput<'a>>;

which means I can't heap-allocate MyCoro: 'static is the only lifetime I can pass to MyCoro, but that's the not lifetime as I will be passing stack-allocated borrowed values to run_until_stall.

I'm not sure how to best solve this problem in Rust. I'm wondering if you know a workaround. To solve this at the API level we would need to somehow avoid the type parameter for the coroutine input in the Cosync type. However if we do that then I don't know how to implement the run_until_stall method as it needs to know the coroutine input type.

Any thoughts on this?

The actual use case: In an app (not a game) I have an event source. Whenever an event arrives my callback is called with & and &mut, and value arguments (passed by the event loop to my callback). This callback is practically a coroutine: it takes an input (event data), it may run an action (or yield a value), or wait for more input. cosyn makes it much simpler to implement than an hand-written coroutine as I need to implement a lot of states manually.

The problem is the callback needs to be heap allocated and passed to the event loop and I don't have control over the event loop code to change this.

I have a use case that requires the following pattern to be possible with cosync:

// Somewhere...

// Task A
cosync.queue(|| async {
    do_something().await;
    do_another_thing().await;
});

// Task B
cosync.queue(|| async {
    do_something().await;
    do_another_thing().await;
});

// Elsewhere, every tick...
cosync.run_until_stall(); // this would run both Task A and Task B until they stall

As a practical example of what I am trying to do, imagine a UI that has multiple elements within it, all of which decide they want to move across the screen, and they run that tween through Cosync. I need them all to move across the screen at the same time, but each needs to have its own task.