Why you might actually want async in your project
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There is a common sentiment I’ve seen over and over in the Rust community that I think is ignorant at best and harmful at worst.
  • JamesT@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    As I understand it, the benefits are that it’s a much smaller dependency and (as the article mentions) unlike tokio you don’t always need things to be ’static or even Send, depending on your scenario.

    This article talks more about the benefits of LocalExecutor.