Decision Workspace
hikari-core vs pygments vs perl-lexer
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
57
hikari-core
experimentalv0.1.8
hikari (光) — the pluggable syntax-highlighting spine: a coverage-complete span model, a line-stateful lexer trait, an object-safe highlighter, and a batteries-included language registry (Rust/Python/Lisp/JSON/TOML/Markdown).
41
pygments
experimentalv0.1.0
a faithful rust port of the python pygments tokenization engine
63
perl-lexer
experimentalv0.17.0
High-performance Perl lexer with context-aware tokenization
Core Metrics
| hikari-core | pygments | perl-lexer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 57 | 41 | 63 |
| Total Downloads | 228 | 10 | 1.9K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 19 | 0 | 64 |
| Releases | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| Last Updated | 4d ago | 20d ago | 15d ago |
| Age | 5d | 20d | 4m |
Health Breakdown
hikari-core
Maintenance
19
Quality
15
Community
10
Popularity
3
Documentation
10
pygments
Maintenance
12
Quality
12
Community
6
Popularity
1
Documentation
10
perl-lexer
Maintenance
19
Quality
14
Community
11
Popularity
4
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| hikari-core | pygments | perl-lexer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.8 | 0.1.0 | 0.17.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 0 | 13 | 6 |
| Crate Size | 14KB | 1.6MB | 219KB |
| Features | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | — | 1.95 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •perl-lexer leads with a health score of 63/100, but none of the options score above 80.