Crate 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. You can avoid allocations by using advanced functions, like safina_executor::spawn_unpin.
• 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(async move {
    sender.send(()).unwrap();
});
receiver.recv().unwrap();

std::thread::spawn(safina_executor::work);
let result = safina::block_on(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
• futures
  • Very popular
  • Contains generous amounts of unsafe code
• tokio
  • Very popular
  • Fast
  • Internally extremely complicated
  • Full of unsafe
• bastion
  • Generous amounts of unsafe code
• nostd_async

Changelog

• v0.1.5 - Add safina_sync::Mutex
• v0.1.4 - Upgrade to new safina-executor version which removes need for Box::pin.
• v0.1.3 - Update docs
• 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

Structs

DeadlineExceeded
Mutex	A wrapper around std::sync::Mutex with an async lock method.
MutexGuard	An RAII scoped lock of a Mutex. It automatically unlocks the mutex when dropped (falls out of scope).

Enums

OptionAB
OptionABC
OptionABCD
OptionABCDE

Functions

block_on	Executes the future on the current thread and returns its result. Panics if the future panics.
increase_threads_to	Spawns new worker threads until the total number of workers is n.
select_ab	Awaits both futures and returns the value from the one that completes first.
select_abc	Awaits the futures and returns the value from the one that completes first.
select_abcd	Awaits the futures and returns the value from the one that completes first.
select_abcde	Awaits the futures and returns the value from the one that completes first.
sleep_for	Returns duration time from now.
sleep_until	Returns after deadline.
spawn	Adds a task that will execute fut. The task runs on any available worker thread.
start_timer_thread	Starts the worker thread, if it's not already started. You must call this before calling sleep_until or sleep_for.
with_deadline	Awaits inner, but returns DeadlineExceeded after deadline.
with_timeout	Awaits inner, but returns DeadlineExceeded after duration time from now.
work	Use the current thread as a worker in the runtime.