Decision Workspace
wait vs async-attributes vs smol-timeout
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
47
wait
growingv0.2.6
Syntactic sugar for calling async functions outside of an async context.
55
async-attributes
growingv1.1.2
Experimental language-level polyfills for Async Rust.
55
smol-timeout
growingv0.6.1
A way to poll a future until it or a timer completes.
Core Metrics
| wait | async-attributes | smol-timeout | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 47 | 55 | 55 |
| Total Downloads | 8.6K | 32.5M | 648.2K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 1.3M | 18.3K |
| Dependents | 0 | 166 | 999 |
| Releases | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| Last Updated | 489d ago | 1948d ago | 448d ago |
| Age | 1y 6m | 6y 11m | 5y 11m |
Health Breakdown
wait
Maintenance
7
Quality
17
Community
6
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
async-attributes
Maintenance
3
Quality
20
Community
12
Popularity
8
Documentation
12
smol-timeout
Maintenance
5
Quality
15
Community
16
Popularity
7
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| wait | async-attributes | smol-timeout | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.6 | 1.1.2 | 0.6.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Crate Size | 20KB | 11KB | 11KB |
| Features | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2018 | 2018 |
| MSRV | 1.56.1 | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Quick Verdict
- •async-attributes leads with a health score of 55/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •smol-timeout is depended on by 999 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ wait, async-attributes, smol-timeout have not been updated in over a year.
- •wait, smol-timeout are pre-1.0 — API may change.