# Crate of the Week

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**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crate-of-the-week/2704 "2015-09-03T15:41:37Z")\
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`async-std`

provides async versions of lots of stuff in the standard library

> **[async-std - Announcing async-std](https://async.rs/blog/announcing-async-std/)**
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> A Rust library for easy and understandable async programming

[https://crates.io/crates/async-std](https://crates.io/crates/async-std)

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