async-std VS Warp

Compare async-std vs Warp and see what are their differences.

async-std

Async version of the Rust standard library (by async-rs)

Warp

Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster. (by warpdotdev)
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async-std Warp
19 57
3,815 18,317
1.0% 7.5%
5.3 7.6
about 2 months ago 10 days ago
Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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async-std

Posts with mentions or reviews of async-std. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
  • Stabilizing async fn in traits in 2023 | Inside Rust Blog
    5 projects | /r/rust | 3 May 2023
    But maybe check out the discussion here https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/pull/631 or something (the blog post was linked on the end of it)
  • Anyone using io_uring?
    8 projects | /r/rust | 18 Aug 2022
    Have a look at these: https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/tree/main/examples
  • Any plans for built-in support of Vec2/Vec3/Vec4 in Rust?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 29 Jul 2022
    In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.
  • 18 factors powering the Rust revolution, Part 2 of 3
    13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2022
    Two major projects (non std lib but extremely commonly used) stand out in the area of async programming: Async std and Tokio - no doubt familiar to anyone that has turned an eye towards Rust for a second too long. Async architecture in general is likely very familiar to JavaScript programmers but in Rust there are some extra considerations (like ownership of the data that is thrown into an async function). Tokio is fast becoming a heavily supported and road tested async framework, with a thread scheduling runtime "baked in" that has learned from the history of Go, Erlang, and Java thread schedulers.
  • What are the side-effects of using different runtimes in the same codebase?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Feb 2022
    Ah... https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio and https://github.com/async-rs/async-std ?
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (51/2021)!
    7 projects | /r/rust | 21 Dec 2021
    async-std: Basically a Tokio alternative with a few different design decisions.
  • Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
    3 projects | /r/programming | 13 Nov 2021
    Go's solution is for the scheduler to notice after a while when a goroutine has blocked execution and to shift goroutines waiting their turn to another thread. async-std pondered a similar approach with tasks, but it proved controversial and was never merged.
  • Building static Rust binaries for Linux
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2021
    This indicates curl, zlib, openssl, and libnghttp2 as well as a bunch of WASM-related things are being dynamically linked into my executable. To resolve this, I looked at the build features exposed by surf and found that it selects the "curl_client" feature by default, which can be turned off and replaced with "h1-client-rustls" which uses an HTTP client backed by rustls and async-std and no dynamically linked libraries. Enabling this build feature removed all -sys dependencies from androidx-release-watcher, allowing me to build static executables of it.
  • Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal
    4 projects | /r/rust | 14 Mar 2021
    And also, the actual PR never got merged.
    4 projects | /r/rust | 14 Mar 2021
    Many people believe that based on the blog post about it, but the PR was actually never merged, and the approach was abandoned due to various issues.

Warp

Posts with mentions or reviews of Warp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.
  • Fig Is Sunsetting
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
  • Linux version of Warp terminal is here
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
    Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

    I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/

    Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

    Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

    [1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
    I'm trying out Warp for the first time, and an immediate accessibility issue for me is that the text is simply too small to read for a lot of the UI elements (context menu, side bar, tab bar…). The size should be configurable for all of the elements, not just the terminal view. I think I would also be fine with a setting that just scales the whole UI.

    I did notice there is an issue for it already: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/1443

  • The New Terminal (Beta) Is Now in JetBrains IDEs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
  • How To Change Your Zoom Background With Code
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2024
    Warp is a Rust-based terminal with AI built in. I like it because it has things like autocompletions, history search, click-to-edit, and theming out-of-the-box. Feels super modern. And if you do want to try it out, use my referral link & get a free theme!)
  • OpenAI Whisper: Transcribe in the Terminal for free
    5 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2023
    Unless you want to type this every day, I’d recommend creating an alias. In my case, I’m using Warp, so I’ll right-click the command and choose Save as Workflow to save my script as a workflow. Warp AI will even help me autofill the title and description and detect variables.
  • Keystroke timing obfuscation added to SSH(1)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023
    This makes me wonder about newer terminal emulators on maccOS like Warp[1], and if they're for example taking all input locally, and then sending it over the remote host in a single blob or not? I imagine doing so would possibly break any sort of raw-mode input being done on remote host but I'd also imagine that is a detectable situation in which you could switch into a raw keystroke feed as well.

    [1]: https://warp.dev

  • Does anyone try the new terminal emulator Warp with Neovim?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 19 May 2023
    Did you mean this issue? Thanks for trying and sharing the experience btw.
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 19 May 2023
    You're right, I just found the discussion there (and it's the longest one currently). For now, I just run tmux inside the emulator.
  • Terminal replacement for someone who’s terrible at scripting?
    3 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 28 Feb 2023
    Hey, developer advocate from Warp (warp.dev) here! I think our terminal app has been mentioned a few times already in the comments, but I wanted to hop on here as well to give some context.

What are some alternatives?

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hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies

hyper - An HTTP library for Rust

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

autocomplete - IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.