GCD VS Async

Compare GCD vs Async and see what are their differences.

GCD

A wrapper of Grand Central Dispatch written in Swift (by nghialv)

Async

Syntactic sugar in Swift for asynchronous dispatches in Grand Central Dispatch (by duemunk)
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GCD Async
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Swift Swift
MIT License MIT License
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GCD

Posts with mentions or reviews of GCD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GCD yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Async

Posts with mentions or reviews of Async. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Async yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GCD and Async you can also consider the following projects:

Atomic - A Swift microframework for very easy atomic values.

GCDTimer - Well-tested GCD Timer in Swift

GCDKit - Grand Central Dispatch simplified with swift.

SwiftSafe - Thread synchronization made easy.

Dispatcher - Queues, timers, and task groups in Swift

AwaitKit - The ES8 Async/Await control flow for Swift

AlecrimAsyncKit

Chronos - :hourglass: Grand Central Dispatch Utilities

Threader - Pretty GCD calls and easier code execution.