Great question. I'm not thinking about competing. All I care about is users and building a great library. I think the best way to advance the state of the ecosy

Great question. I'm not thinking about competing. All I care about is users and building a great library. I think the best way to advance the state of the ecosystem is by experimenting and shipping improvements. IMO Ideas are best shared as working code. The Tokio team has been very active on that front. Recently, we've shipped a new strategy to improve the cooperative scheduler (https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption/ https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption/), and a bunch of other new utilities (https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.12 https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.12, https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.11 https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.11). Standardization can be extracted once proven. This is how `std::future` came to be.