hyperium/hyper

Health v2 · maintenance only

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16296 stars · 1793 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

hyper is a fast, correct, low-level HTTP implementation for Rust providing both client and server APIs with HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 support. It is designed as a building block for libraries and applications rather than a convenient end-user HTTP tool.

Use cases

• implement an HTTP server in Rust
• make HTTP requests from a Rust application
• build a web framework or higher-level HTTP client on top of a solid foundation
• handle high-concurrency HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 traffic
• embed an HTTP client or server in another service or tool

When to choose

• you need a fast, memory-safe, low-level HTTP building block in Rust
• you are building a framework, proxy, or library that needs HTTP client/server primitives
• you need fine control over HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 behavior with async I/O

When to avoid

• you just want a convenient high-level HTTP client - use reqwest instead
• you want an opinionated web framework with routing and middleware out of the box - use axum or warp
• you are not working in Rust

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client http-server web-framework web-development backend apis networking rust cross-platform http1 http2 async tokio low-level

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