Rust Sleep - A Safe and Performant Sleep Function for Rust

Rust Sleep is a library that provides a safe and efficient way to tell your Rust programs to sleep for a certain amount of time. With Rust Sleep, you can ensure that your programs sleep as intended without any risk of data corruption or other safety violations.

Getting Started

To use Rust Sleep in your Rust programs, simply add the following line to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
rust-sleep = "0.1.0"

Once you've done that, you can use Rust Sleep's main function, rust_sleep::sleep, to make your program sleep for a given number of milliseconds:

use rust_sleep::sleep;

fn main() {
    println!("Going to sleep...");
    sleep(1000);  // sleeps for 1000 milliseconds or 1 second
    println!("Awake and refreshed!");
}

Why Use Rust Sleep?

While it's possible to use the standard std::thread::sleep function to make your Rust programs sleep, Rust Sleep offers a few benefits that make it a more attractive option in some cases:

Safety

Rust Sleep is designed with safety in mind. It's implemented with Rust's ownership and borrowing system, which means that it's impossible for Rust Sleep to cause data corruption or other safety violations. This stands in contrast to other sleep functions, which may rely on things like raw pointers that can be unsafe if used incorrectly.

Efficiency

Rust Sleep is also designed to be efficient. When you call Rust Sleep's sleep function, it will put the current thread to sleep for the requested number of milliseconds without blocking other threads. This means that your Rust programs can continue to perform other tasks while waiting for a sleep period to complete.

Cross-platform Compatibility

Finally, Rust Sleep is designed to be cross-platform compatible. It uses platform-specific APIs to implement sleep functionality in a way that works well on every supported platform. This means that you can write Rust programs that use Rust Sleep and be confident that they'll work as expected on Windows, Linux, macOS, and other popular platforms.

Conclusion

Rust Sleep provides a safe, efficient, and cross-platform compatible way to make your Rust programs sleep. Whether you're writing a networked game server, a web scraping tool, or any other kind of program that needs to pause periodically, Rust Sleep is a great choice for your sleeping needs!