diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 383b0ee..8040b3c 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@
 ^vignettes/future_promise/.*\.key$
 ^vignettes/future_promise/.*\.R$
 ^CRAN-RELEASE$
+^\.vscode$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3d3d3c6..9dd7437 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ inst/doc
 doc
 Meta
 docs
+.vscode
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1fc352c..3190462 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: promises
 Title: Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
-Version: 1.2.1.9001
+Version: 1.2.1.9002
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joe", "Cheng", , "joe@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
+    person("Mauricio", "Vargas Sepulveda", role = "ctb",
+        comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1017-7574")),
     person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
   )
 Description: Provides fundamental abstractions for doing asynchronous
@@ -17,11 +19,11 @@ URL: https://rstudio.github.io/promises/,
     https://github.com/rstudio/promises
 BugReports: https://github.com/rstudio/promises/issues
 Imports:
+    cpp11,
     fastmap (>= 1.1.0),
     later,
     magrittr (>= 1.5),
     R6,
-    Rcpp,
     rlang,
     stats
 Suggests:
@@ -33,12 +35,12 @@ Suggests:
     testthat,
     vembedr
 LinkingTo: 
-    later,
-    Rcpp
+    cpp11,
+    later
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
 Config/Needs/website: rsconnect
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index d262bcd..d21f2ec 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export(then)
 export(with_promise_domain)
 import(R6)
 import(later)
-importFrom(Rcpp,evalCpp)
+importFrom(cpp11,cpp_eval)
 importFrom(magrittr,"%>%")
 importFrom(magrittr,"%T>%")
-useDynLib(promises)
+useDynLib(promises, .registration = TRUE)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6b6aaca..ec5ac38 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # promises (development version)
 
 * `is.promising` is now an S3 method. (#104)
-
+* Refactored to use the "cpp11" package for C++ code instead of "Rcpp". (@pachadotdev, #109)
 
 # promises 1.2.1
 
diff --git a/R/RcppExports.R b/R/RcppExports.R
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ec0601..0000000
--- a/R/RcppExports.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Generated by using Rcpp::compileAttributes() -> do not edit by hand
-# Generator token: 10BE3573-1514-4C36-9D1C-5A225CD40393
-
-asyncFib <- function(resolve, reject, x) {
-    invisible(.Call('_promises_asyncFib', PACKAGE = 'promises', resolve, reject, x))
-}
-
diff --git a/R/cpp11.R b/R/cpp11.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e91254
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/cpp11.R
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Generated by cpp11: do not edit by hand
+
+asyncFib <- function(resolve, reject, x) {
+  invisible(.Call(`_promises_asyncFib`, resolve, reject, x))
+}
diff --git a/R/promise.R b/R/promise.R
index 7f2a452..3335793 100644
--- a/R/promise.R
+++ b/R/promise.R
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#' @useDynLib promises
-#' @importFrom Rcpp evalCpp
+#' @importFrom cpp11 cpp_eval
 #' @import later
 NULL
 
diff --git a/R/promises-package.R b/R/promises-package.R
index aa68764..adae393 100644
--- a/R/promises-package.R
+++ b/R/promises-package.R
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
-#' @keywords internal
+#' @useDynLib promises, .registration = TRUE
 "_PACKAGE"
 
-## usethis namespace: start
-## usethis namespace: end
-NULL
-
 ignore_unused_imports <- function() {
   fastmap::fastqueue
 }
diff --git a/inst/WORDLIST b/inst/WORDLIST
index aec40da..63c2018 100644
--- a/inst/WORDLIST
+++ b/inst/WORDLIST
@@ -10,17 +10,20 @@ Lopp
 Multisession
 NSE
 OpenCPU
+ORCID
 PBC
 RServe
 RStudio
 Shiny's
 ShinyApps
+Sepulveda
 UI
 anonymized
 async
 backoff
 cloneable
 conf
+cpp
 cranwhales
 deserialization
 deserialized
@@ -58,6 +61,7 @@ reactives
 renderers
 rstudio
 runtime’s
+Rcpp
 scalability
 scalable
 shinydashboard
diff --git a/man/promises-package.Rd b/man/promises-package.Rd
index 94ba3a4..649e785 100644
--- a/man/promises-package.Rd
+++ b/man/promises-package.Rd
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Useful links:
 
 Other contributors:
 \itemize{
+  \item Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda (\href{https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1017-7574}{ORCID}) [contributor]
   \item Posit Software, PBC [copyright holder, funder]
 }
 
 }
-\keyword{internal}
diff --git a/src/.gitignore b/src/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22034c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.o
+*.so
+*.dll
diff --git a/src/RcppExports.cpp b/src/RcppExports.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index cb7c374..0000000
--- a/src/RcppExports.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-// Generated by using Rcpp::compileAttributes() -> do not edit by hand
-// Generator token: 10BE3573-1514-4C36-9D1C-5A225CD40393
-
-#include <Rcpp.h>
-
-using namespace Rcpp;
-
-#ifdef RCPP_USE_GLOBAL_ROSTREAM
-Rcpp::Rostream<true>&  Rcpp::Rcout = Rcpp::Rcpp_cout_get();
-Rcpp::Rostream<false>& Rcpp::Rcerr = Rcpp::Rcpp_cerr_get();
-#endif
-
-// asyncFib
-void asyncFib(Rcpp::Function resolve, Rcpp::Function reject, double x);
-RcppExport SEXP _promises_asyncFib(SEXP resolveSEXP, SEXP rejectSEXP, SEXP xSEXP) {
-BEGIN_RCPP
-    Rcpp::RNGScope rcpp_rngScope_gen;
-    Rcpp::traits::input_parameter< Rcpp::Function >::type resolve(resolveSEXP);
-    Rcpp::traits::input_parameter< Rcpp::Function >::type reject(rejectSEXP);
-    Rcpp::traits::input_parameter< double >::type x(xSEXP);
-    asyncFib(resolve, reject, x);
-    return R_NilValue;
-END_RCPP
-}
-
-static const R_CallMethodDef CallEntries[] = {
-    {"_promises_asyncFib", (DL_FUNC) &_promises_asyncFib, 3},
-    {NULL, NULL, 0}
-};
-
-RcppExport void R_init_promises(DllInfo *dll) {
-    R_registerRoutines(dll, NULL, CallEntries, NULL, NULL);
-    R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
-}
diff --git a/src/cpp11.cpp b/src/cpp11.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84928bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cpp11.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// Generated by cpp11: do not edit by hand
+// clang-format off
+
+
+#include "cpp11/declarations.hpp"
+#include <R_ext/Visibility.h>
+
+// promise_task.cpp
+void asyncFib(cpp11::function resolve, cpp11::function reject, double x);
+extern "C" SEXP _promises_asyncFib(SEXP resolve, SEXP reject, SEXP x) {
+  BEGIN_CPP11
+    asyncFib(cpp11::as_cpp<cpp11::decay_t<cpp11::function>>(resolve), cpp11::as_cpp<cpp11::decay_t<cpp11::function>>(reject), cpp11::as_cpp<cpp11::decay_t<double>>(x));
+    return R_NilValue;
+  END_CPP11
+}
+
+extern "C" {
+static const R_CallMethodDef CallEntries[] = {
+    {"_promises_asyncFib", (DL_FUNC) &_promises_asyncFib, 3},
+    {NULL, NULL, 0}
+};
+}
+
+extern "C" attribute_visible void R_init_promises(DllInfo* dll){
+  R_registerRoutines(dll, NULL, CallEntries, NULL, NULL);
+  R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
+  R_forceSymbols(dll, TRUE);
+}
diff --git a/src/promise_task.cpp b/src/promise_task.cpp
index 9356dce..952ff77 100644
--- a/src/promise_task.cpp
+++ b/src/promise_task.cpp
@@ -1,55 +1,53 @@
-#include <Rcpp.h>
 #include <later_api.h>
 
+#include <cpp11.hpp>
+
 class PromiseTask : public later::BackgroundTask {
-public:
-  PromiseTask(Rcpp::Function resolve, Rcpp::Function reject) :
-    resolve(resolve), reject(reject) {
-  }
+ public:
+  PromiseTask(cpp11::function resolve, cpp11::function reject)
+      : resolve(resolve), reject(reject) {}
 
-protected:
+ protected:
   virtual void execute() = 0;
-  virtual Rcpp::RObject get_result() = 0;
+  virtual cpp11::sexp get_result() = 0;
 
   void complete() {
-    Rcpp::RObject result = get_result();
+    cpp11::sexp result = get_result();
     resolve(result);
   }
-private:
-  Rcpp::Function resolve;
-  Rcpp::Function reject;
+
+ private:
+  cpp11::function resolve;
+  cpp11::function reject;
 };
 
 long fib(long x) {
   if (x <= 2) {
     return 1;
   }
-  return fib(x-1) + fib(x-2);
+  return fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
 }
 
 class FibonacciTask : public PromiseTask {
-public:
-  FibonacciTask(Rcpp::Function resolve, Rcpp::Function reject, double x) :
-    PromiseTask(resolve, reject), x(x) {
-  }
+ public:
+  FibonacciTask(cpp11::function resolve, cpp11::function reject, double x)
+      : PromiseTask(resolve, reject), x(x) {}
 
-  void execute() {
-    result = fib((long)x);
-  }
+  void execute() { result = fib((long)x); }
 
-  Rcpp::RObject get_result() {
-    Rcpp::NumericVector res(1);
+  cpp11::sexp get_result() {
+    cpp11::writable::doubles res(1);
     res[0] = (double)result;
     return res;
   }
 
-private:
+ private:
   double x;
   long result;
 };
 
-// [[Rcpp::export]]
-void asyncFib(Rcpp::Function resolve, Rcpp::Function reject, double x) {
+[[cpp11::register]] void asyncFib(cpp11::function resolve,
+  cpp11::function reject, double x) {
   FibonacciTask* fib = new FibonacciTask(resolve, reject, x);
   fib->begin();
 }
@@ -57,10 +55,9 @@ void asyncFib(Rcpp::Function resolve, Rcpp::Function reject, double x) {
 /*** R
 library(promises)
 library(later)
-library(Rcpp)
+library(cpp11)
 
 promise(function(resolve, reject) {
-  promise:::asyncFib(resolve, reject, 45)
+  cpp11::package("your_package_name")$asyncFib(resolve, reject, 45)
 }) %...>% print()
-
- */
+*/