# tokio-rs/tokio

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 33,510 total · +7 stars measured 2026-10-25, 00:15–11:08 UTC, ≈ 13 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2016-09-09 · Last push: 2026-10-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio · Homepage: https://tokio.rs · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/tokio-rs/tokio

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-25 (UTC), 00:15–11:08: 33503 → 33510 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +13 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5,609
- Issues and pull requests: 7,890
- Watchers: 329
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: 11 per day
- Latest release: tokio-1.54.1 (2026-10-21)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: 13, 12, 4, 4, 13, 5, 5, 14, 19, 17, 11, 12, 14, 5, 9, 8, 14, 11, 12, 9, 4, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-29 3.2, 09-30 2.9, 10-14 2.8, 10-15 2.8, 10-16 2.8, 10-17 2.7, 10-18 2.8, 10-19 2.3, 10-20 2.5, 10-21 2.4, 10-22 2.7, 10-23 2.0, 10-24 2.1, 10-25 1.7

## Hacker News

- Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust — 113 points, 100 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842332
- Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust — 7 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836087

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-25 11:13 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.