SMRTR ProgrammingMar 22, 2026lobste.rs

console: a debugger for async rust

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tokio-console is a diagnostics tool for async Rust programs that provides task monitoring similar to top(1). It includes a wire protocol for streaming diagnostic data, instrumentation via console-subscriber crate, and an interactive CLI client. Setup requires enabling tokio_unstable cfg and TRACE level logging for tokio and runtime targets.

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