async-task
v4.7.1 GrowingTask abstraction for building executors
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- ✓Stable API (4.x for 7+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (1.4K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
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Deep Insights
8.4M downloads in the last 30 days (281.5K/day), up 19% from the previous period.
1.4K crates depend on async-task. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 118 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 7 years with 25 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
At 37KB, async-task is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include blocking, async-executor, sqlx-core, async-process, zbus. When high-quality crates choose async-task, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
