Smol Alternatives

smol reviews and mentions

• The State of Async Rust
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2023

  My understanding is you always need a runtime, somethings needs to drive the async flow. But there are others on the market, just not without the.. market domination... of tokio.

  https://github.com/smol-rs/smol looks promising simply for being minimal

  https://github.com/bytedance/monoio looks potentially easier to work with than tokio

  https://github.com/DataDog/glommio is built around linux io_uring and seems somewhat promising for performance reasons.

  I haven't played with any of these yet, because Tokio is unfortunately the path of least resistance. And a bit viral in how it's infected tings.

• Smol: A small and fast async runtime for Rust
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023
• Tokio for FFI app?
  1 project | /r/rust | 13 Dec 2022

  There is also https://github.com/smol-rs/smol which has components which you can compose into your own executor if you still need async IO but your usage patterns don't fit into the general purpose ones that Tokio provides.

• Tokio application structure, critical code flow.
  1 project | /r/rust | 23 Jul 2022

  If you need precise control over scheduling, consider building something on top of https://github.com/smol-rs/smol

• Async Rust: What is a runtime? Here is how tokio works under the hood
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2022
• 18 factors powering the Rust revolution, Part 2 of 3
  13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2022

  Tokio is a "take what you need" framework, whilst Async-std started as an "everything the box" solution. Today both have a lot of crossover with micro async runtimes like smol becoming the foundation one of framework and optionally usable in the other. The ability to rip out a small dependent sub-crate (dependent package) like smol and use it independently with ease never get's boring, by the way. It's great way to include a test runtime in an async library without forcing the inclusion of a giant async framework.

• [Question] Is Tokio a poor fit for non-network related concurrent applications?
  3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jan 2022

  Helix uses tokio. smol might be a good alternative however.

• Async feedback from 2 years of usage
  2 projects | /r/rust | 13 Nov 2021

  No, still active on GitHub. What gave you that idea? https://github.com/smol-rs/smol

• Tokio, the async runtime for Rust, hits 1.0
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2020

  Found the issue in Google cache. I'm not sure it's really fair of me to post this link here, but equally I think it's better to give the actual text rather than leave it vague.

  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PRjMyv...

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