It's... been hyper for years and is still hyper. Reqwest is an ergonomic wrapper on top of hyper if you want a higher-level API with less control.
Among the Rust ecosystem things to gripe about, this is a odd one.
async_std vs. tokio is the real split-investment battleground these days, effectively undermining the async/await momentum right as it gets out of the gate.
Re:Choosing Between Rust or Go?
by steveklabnik on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:18PM
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Reqwest is an easier-to-use wrapper around Hyper. By the same authors.
This is a process problem. The development process for Rust does not seem to force convergence.
[1] https://hackernoon.com/programming-in-rust-the-good-the-bad-...