Async feature?

[aesteve]

Could investigate on a full async implementation, since people dealing with Vert.x will be used to such patterns already.

Maybe a different "feature" (like reqwest sync/async)?

[slinkydeveloper]

What about using refactoring to use tokio? You can make the whole library async and then people can use it in a "sync" way using blocking tokio executors. I can help if you want

[aesteve]

I experimented on a branch already.Tests are failing with 100% CPU use since I messed something up while reading the socket. I'll point you at it once I'm back home but implementing the protocol using tokio is way less easy than I thought it would be