tokio-rs/bytes

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2249 stars · 350 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rust library providing types and traits (Bytes, BytesMut, Buf, BufMut) for efficiently working with byte buffers, including zero-copy operations. It supports no_std environments and optional Serde serialization.

Use cases

• handle byte buffers in rust efficiently
• zero-copy byte slicing for network protocols
• read and write binary data with Buf traits
• use byte buffers in no_std embedded rust
• serialize byte buffers with serde

When to choose

• you need efficient, zero-copy byte buffer management in Rust
• you are building network or IO code that manipulates bytes
• you need no_std or embedded support for byte handling

When to avoid

• you only need simple Vec<u8> usage without performance constraints
• you need higher-level serialization formats rather than raw bytes

Facets

library · maturity stable

serialization developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages performance rust cross-platform embedded buffers zero-copy no-std io rust-library

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