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In practice there's no fragmentation problem: you use tokio, and never think about async-std again (despite the name, async-std is not standard/official in any way). Everyone supports tokio, and there isn't anything unique to async-std that doesn't have a tokio alternative.

This state totally sucks for the authors of async-std who have an uphill battle getting traction in the tokio-dominated ecosystem, but from user perspective you can pretend the problem doesn't exist. Treat tokio as the standard library, as if it was hardcoded and you had no choice on the matter.



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