The difference is that nobody really writes application code like that, it's a tool for writing libraries and creating abstractions. If all of the ugliness of async Rust was contained inside Tokio, I would have zero problems with it, but it just infects everything it touches
Unfortunately it makes the libraries difficult (or at least very tedious) to read. I find zig's standard library a very good reference for figuring out to do things in application space, from what I've seen it's been very clear and useful.
