> Embassy has it's own HALs which makes it better at async and has also nicer ergonomic IMO Worth noting, you don't HAVE to use the embassy HALs with the embas

> Embassy has it's own HALs which makes it better at async and has also nicer ergonomic IMO Worth noting, you don't HAVE to use the embassy HALs with the embassy executor. However, AFAIK, the only mainstream non-embassy HALs that supports async is the ESP32 HALs. There's no technical lock in, it's just that everyone I've seen implementing async support (outside ESP32) tends to do it within the Embassy project today. That may change over time.