[olalonde]

My main issue with Rust async was that it wasn't possible to write a "runtime agnostic" libraries. For example, I wrote an HTTP client with Tokio and later wanted to use it in a project that was using another runtime (I think it was async-std) and couldn't use it. I wonder if that has changed since then?

[nicoburns]

That's basically only a problem if you use async-std (just don't, and switch your project if you have). Pretty much everything supports tokio (or there is a just-as-good equivalent library that supports tokio).

Which isn't to say this shouldn't be fixed. Just that there's a fairly good away to avoid the problem in practice.

[staticassertion]

This is probably more of a concern for people who aren't writing services/ professional devs. Otherwise, who cares, you pick a runtime (tokio) and you use it - runtime agnosticism isn't a real goal for any company.