Tokio
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Oct 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“tokio gives me most of the concurrency goodies I like”
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“This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy”
systems software engineer job seekeron “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)”
“This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy”
systems software engineeron “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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Also written as tokio. Data: tokio.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“even as someone who uses Rust/tokio daily”
“I use frameworks and libraries. Like Tokio, Auxum/Actix Web, Diesel.”
“tokio and embassy are both runtimes but former is a throughput-optimized heavily multi-threaded”
“Tokio is definitely not the only reasonable choice.”
“Creating unbounded queues in Tokio requires a fair bit of error on the part of the programmer”
“uses tokio async because it plays nicely with zmq”
“multi-threaded Tokio (2 threads)”
“Tokio (async runtime)”
“tokio gives me most of the concurrency goodies I like”
“This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy”
“This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy”
“This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy”