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if I understand correctly, smol was created by the async-std folks, and async-std now uses it as its runtime https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/pull/757 htt

• indepnd 6y ago
  From what I've read, smol was created by its author and later on adopted by async-std. And, its author was in Tokio team, and later left and was in async-std team before he left and created smol. So smol was based on quite deep knowledge and experience in async.