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Why you might actually want async in your project (notgull.net)
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[–] words_number@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

It's actually not that hard to use async libraries in sync context. I rarely need that but if I do, I just pull in an executor and write a little extension trait for futures that lets me call .block() instead of .await.