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  1. tokio

    A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

    It's outdated and see this issue that removing it: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/1807

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  3. async-std

    Async version of the Rust standard library

    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)

  4. rust

    Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    The issue currently, and the one that the article above points out, is that right now you can't use async in a single-threaded context without paying for synchronization overhead anyway. All of the provided constructs must be Send and the supporting data structures all use Arc and Mutex under the hood. There's been progress in this area but it still isn't a supported use case. In order to do it you basically have to use mio or write things from scratch.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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