Yes, but there’s nothing akin to the GIL in Rust/Tokio, so the potential impact of blocking is lower, and you can use spawn_blocking to move any blocking code (

Yes, but there’s nothing akin to the GIL in Rust/Tokio, so the potential impact of blocking is lower, and you can use spawn_blocking to move any blocking code (that you cannot eliminate) off the main worker threads that are polling futures, or use other techniques like run the blocking work on another standard thread and await on a channel for the result.