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		Animats on Sept 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurr... > Yes, async is effectively a much harder version of Rust, and it's regrettable how it's been shoved down the throats of everyone, while only 1% of projects using it really need it. Yes. I just noticed that Tokio was pulled into my program as a dependency. Again. It's not being used, but I'm using a crate which has a function I'm not using which imports reqwest, which imports h2, which imports tokio.

grug_htmx_dev on Sept 8, 2023 | [–]

Exactly, because something somewhere needs to make one http call, and it's would be impossible if it wasn't done with scalable async executor. /i

Klonoar on Sept 8, 2023 | [–]

PR them to use ureq. ;)

wrapperup on Sept 9, 2023 | [–]

I recently did this in a relatively small crate, and it halved the dependencies. Highly recommended if you don't need async.

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