Mastering Rust - Second Edition

Tokio

Combining both of the above mentioned abstractions, and along a work stealing scheduler, event loop and a timer implementation we have the tokio crate, which provides a runtime for driving these futures to completion. With the tokio framework, you can spawn many futures and have them run concurrently.

The tokio crate was born to provide a go-to solution for building robust and high-performance asynchronous networking applications that are agnostic of the protocol, yet provides abstractions for general patterns that are common in all networking applications. The tokio crate is technically a runtime consisting of a thread pool, and event loop, and a reactor for I/O events based on mio. By runtime, we mean that every web application developed ...