Embassy Traits

Embassy provides a set of traits and types specifically designed for async usage. Many of these futures will be upstreamed to the embedded-hal crate at some point in the future, probably when the required GAT (Generic Associated Types) feature is stabilized in Rust.

embassy::io: AsyncBufRead, AsyncWrite. Traits for byte-stream IO, essentially no_std compatible versions of futures::io. The primary reason for re-defining these traits is that the futures::io variant requires std::io::Error, which does not work in the no_std environment.
embassy::time: Time Driver trait that is implemented for different platforms. Time in Embassy is represented using the Duration and Instant types.

These traits are implemented by the platform-specific crates, such as embassy-nrf or embassy-stm32.