futures VS async

Compare futures vs async and see what are their differences.

async

Run IO operations asynchronously and wait for their results (by simonmar)
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futures async
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5 315
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0.0 4.2
over 5 years ago about 1 month ago
Haskell Haskell
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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futures

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning futures 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. The last one was on 2022-06-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing futures and async you can also consider the following projects:

timers - Simple package that implements timers. Both "one-shot" and "repeating" timers are implemented.

throttle-io-stream - Throttler between a producer and a consumer function

stm-hamt - STM-specialised Hash Array Mapped Trie

restricted-workers - Interactive-diagrams

scheduler - A work stealing scheduler

async-combinators

unagi-bloomfilter - A fast, cache-efficient, concurrent bloom filter in Haskell

streamly - High performance, concurrent functional programming abstractions

unagi-chan - A haskell library implementing fast and scalable concurrent queues for x86, with a Chan-like API

rwlock - A simple implementation of a multiple-reader / single-writer locks using STM

atomic-modify - Incubator for my Haskell libraries

theatre - Minimalistic actor library for Haskell