safina

A safe Rust async runtime.

Features

• forbid(unsafe_code)
• Depends only on std
• Good test coverage (>92%)

Limitations

• Requires Rust nightly, for OnceCell and Wake trait
• Allocates memory
• Not optimized

Documentation

https://docs.rs/safina

safina_async_test has an #[async_test] macro for running async fn test functions.

Examples

safina::increase_threads_to(1);
let (sender, receiver) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
safina::spawn(Box::pin(async move {
    sender.send(()).unwrap();
}));
receiver.recv().unwrap();

std::thread::spawn(safina_executor::work);
let result = safina::block_on(Box::pin(async {
    prepare_request().await?;
    execute_request().await
}))?;

Alternatives

• smol
  • Popular
  • Contains generous amounts of unsafe code
• async-std
  • Very popular
  • Contains generous amounts of unsafe code
• tokio
  • Very popular
  • Fast
  • Internally extremely complicated
  • Full of unsafe
• nostd_async

Changelog

• v0.1.3 - Update readme
• v0.1.2 - Renamed safina crate to safina-executor. Added new safina crate with re-exports, examples, and integration tests.
• v0.1.1 - Add badges to readme
• v0.1.0 - First published version

TO DO

• Add an integration test
• Add init function that starts worker threads and the timer thread.
• Make it work on Rust stable
• Add an #[async_main] macro

Release Process

1. Edit Cargo.toml and bump version number.
2. Run ./release.sh

License: Apache-2.0