[Klonoar]

>But can you share more on what you need Tokio for?

Because everything. uses. Tokio. It's become the defacto standard of async Rust, whether people like it or not.

This issue has been notable enough to cause some projects to outright consider dropping async-std support - and I think they only relented because there's apparently enough (private, not-open-source) users who apparently still use it.

(https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/1669)

(Note that they also have a note about async-compat not exactly being an ideal solution and that they'd be looking into writing their own)