tokio-rs/tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 17 days ago, with 437 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #42 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a runtime for building reliable, asynchronous applications in Rust with non-blocking I/O and task scheduling.
- Delivers high performance and thread safety using Rust's ownership and concurrency model with minimal runtime overhead.
- Use for developing scalable network servers handling many concurrent TCP or UDP connections efficiently.
- Use for implementing asynchronous applications requiring precise timer and scheduling control in a multithreaded environment.
- Use for creating event-driven systems that integrate with OS-level event queues like epoll, kqueue, or IOCP.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Tokio is an event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous applications with the Rust programming language. At a high level, it provides a few major components:
These components provide the runtime components necessary for building an asynchronous application.
A basic TCP echo server with Tokio.
Make sure you activated the full features of the tokio crate on Cargo.toml:
More examples can be found here. For a larger "real world" example, see the mini-redis repository.
To see a list of the available features flags that can be enabled, check our docs.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+832 stars over 90 days across 15 snapshot days; best day +19 on Aug 11.
Forks
4.5K+1.3K
Open issues
450+36
Compared with peers in Networking
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MHSanaei/3x-ui | 49.6K | +448 | 52 | 137 days ago |
| GyulyVGC/sniffnet | 42.3K | +422 | 75 | 111 days ago |
| tailscale/tailscale | 38.9K | +311 | 75 | today |
| netbirdio/netbird | 30.9K | +267 | 75 | today |
| fosrl/pangolin | 23.6K | +218 | 75 | 6 days ago |
| tokio-rs/tokio | 33.7K | — | 64 | 17 days ago |
| Category median | 38.9K | +311 | 75 | — |
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