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sqlx
🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. (by transact-rs)
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Goroutines in Rust
That's it. Everything else — async/await, actors, work-stealing executors, lock-free data structures — lives in the ecosystem (tokio, rayon, crossbeam, actix, etc.).
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Introducing LlamaStash: a zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher
Building LlamaStash brought me back to a lot of that, but the ground has shifted. ratatui (the maintained fork of tui-rs) is a real, polished framework now. tokio makes async daemons boring in a good way. hyper gives you a respectable HTTP server in a few hundred lines. crossterm handles the cross-platform terminal mess. sysinfo covers host metrics. The pieces are all there and you have LLMs to help you speed up everything to 10x.
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Go vs Rust: the only backend language debate that actually matters in 2026
The async ecosystem has matured to the point where this is actually enjoyable to build now. Tokio is the async runtime most production Rust services are built on, and Axum gives you an ergonomic HTTP layer that won’t make you miss Go’s simplicity quite as much as you’d expect.
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De C++ a Rust: cómo reescribir infraestructura crÃtica en producción
Tokio — Async runtime para Rust — Runtime más usado para servicios de red y concurrencia en Rust.
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From Futures to Runtimes: How Async Rust Actually Works
Understanding the internals won't change how you write async Rust day to day, but it changes how you think about it. That mental model helps when you find you're on one of Rust's sharp edges. If you want to go deeper, the tokio source, this blog post by Priyanka Yadav, and Jon Gjengset's async Rust series are the best next steps.
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Web Developer Travis McCracken on The Simplicity of Net/HTTP in Go
In fastjson-api, I leveraged Rust’s async capabilities with tokio to handle thousands of simultaneous connections efficiently. The project demonstrates how Rust’s zero-cost abstractions can lead to a lightweight, high-throughput API server.
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Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/7622
The tests do not appear to simulate the queue in Loom, which would be a very, very good idea.
This stuff is _hard_, and I almost certainly made a mistake in the above. In practice, the queue is probably fine to use, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's a heisenbug lurking in this codebase that manifests something like: it all works fine now, but in the next LLVM version an optimization pass which breaks it on ARM, and after that the queue yield duplicate values in a busy loop every few million reads which is only triggered in release mode on Graviton processors.
Or something. Like I said, this stuff is _hard_. I wrote a very detailed simulator for the Rust/C++ memory model, have implemented dozens of lockless algorithms, and I still make a mistake every time I go to write code. You need to simulate it with something like Loom to have any hope of a robust implementation.
For anyone interested in learning about Rust's memory model, I can't recommend enough Rust Atomics and Locks:
https://marabos.nl/atomics/
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I’ve Just Launched a DNS Server in 🦀 Rust!
Asynchronous Processing: With the power of tokio, the server handles DNS queries asynchronously, with no blocking, improving scalability and latency.
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Cancelling Async Rust
It's definitely a bit contrived, but to me it's also emblematic of the issues with async Rust.
The note on mpsc::Sender::send losing the message on drop [1] was actually added by me [2], after I wrote the Oxide RFD on cancellations [3] that this talk is a distilled form of. So even the great folks on the Tokio project hadn't considered this particular landmine.
[1] https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/mpsc/struct.Sender.h...
[2] https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/5947
[3] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0400
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How to Write Safe Concurrent Code in Rust in 2025?
Asynchronous programming has seen considerable adoption, and Rust's Tokio runtime provides an excellent framework for writing asynchronous code. Utilizing async/await syntax in Rust allows for efficient concurrent execution in I/O-bound applications.
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