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Why you might actually want async in your project – notgull – The world's #1 source of notgull (notgull.net)
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[–] jamesthurley@programming.dev 5 points 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.