What is Tokio?
It is an open source library providing an asynchronous, event driven platform for building fast, reliable, and lightweight network applications. It leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety.
Tokio is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Zero-cost abstractionsConcurrencyOwnership and type systemNo garbage collectorNon-blocking I/O
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Akka
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