A common theme in rust development is the notion that no one could produce more optimal code by hand. This is a great feature, but in the case of async/await w

A common theme in rust development is the notion that no one could produce more optimal code by hand. This is a great feature, but in the case of async/await we are sacrificing a lot to get it. To the extent that a user trying to make their first http request with reqwest will now get conflicting documentation and guidance on whether they need tokio and other packages to pull in async.