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What are the benefits of Smol compared to the dominant async framework Tokio?
As I understand it, the benefits are that it’s a much smaller dependency and (as the article mentions) unlike
tokioyou don’t always need things to be’staticor evenSend, depending on your scenario.This article talks more about the benefits of LocalExecutor.