tokio-rs/tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
About the project
An asynchronous runtime for Rust providing non-blocking I/O, a task scheduler, timers, and network sockets. Used to build reliable concurrent applications and network services in Rust.
Useful for
- Write an async TCP server or client handling many concurrent connections
- Build a concurrent network service with timers, channels, and backpressure
- Lay the foundation for HTTP/gRPC services on hyper, axum, or tonic
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Why it’s trending
- 2 stars so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #10, +5 stars.
- About 169 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 33,176
- Stars in a day
- 4
- Forks
- 3,524
- Issues and pull requests
- 7,668
- Watchers
- 333
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- tokio-1.53.1 · July 20, 2026
- Created
- September 9, 2016
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 19, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #10, +5 stars
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