Re:Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
by octoberfranklin on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:24PM
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Tokio is basically the asynchronous standard I/O library for Rust.
Async/await are language features. Tokio is the library for using these to do I/O.
Rust has a really tiny standard library (by modern standards) and a very high standard for moving stuff into the standard library. Right now it has no "standard" asynchronous I/O library ("async-std" bequeathed that name on themselves; it doesn't ship with Rust).
Async/await are language features. Tokio is the library for using these to do I/O.
Rust has a really tiny standard library (by modern standards) and a very high standard for moving stuff into the standard library. Right now it has no "standard" asynchronous I/O library ("async-std" bequeathed that name on themselves; it doesn't ship with Rust).