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It looks great.

But it's odd that they do not cite Tokio. I know this isn't an academic paper, but come on have some professional curtesy and discuss the contributions made in prior art.

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Apologies if I'm misunderstanding things here, I'm just now getting back into Rust after a couple of years of not using it. Did Tokio really inspire this library that much?

Absolutely. The whole std::future interface has been borne out of years of careful attempts to actually make these abstractions work in real life. async-std didn’t come from a vacuum. It’s a incremental improvement on tokio that benefits from being able to greenfield on top of the newly changed and standardized future trait.

Carl Lerche and the rest of the Tokio contributors deserve a citation.

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