Decision Workspace
html-helpers vs hotmeal vs h2s
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
45
html-helpers
experimentalv0.1.0
A collection of high-level utilities for cleaning, transforming, and converting HTML content.
49
hotmeal
experimentalv1.1.0
HTML toolkit with arena-based DOM, html5ever parsing, and serialization
42
h2s
growingv0.18.0
A declarative HTML parser, which works like a deserializer from HTML to struct
Core Metrics
| html-helpers | hotmeal | h2s | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 45 | 49 | 42 |
| Total Downloads | 3.2K | 134 | 12.1K |
| 30d Downloads | 76 | 65 | 13 |
| Dependents | 36 | 2 | 0 |
| Releases | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Last Updated | 172d ago | 23d ago | 969d ago |
| Age | 10m | 2m | 3y 4m |
Health Breakdown
html-helpers
Maintenance
11
Quality
13
Community
7
Popularity
4
Documentation
10
hotmeal
Maintenance
13
Quality
14
Community
7
Popularity
3
Documentation
12
h2s
Maintenance
4
Quality
16
Community
5
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| html-helpers | hotmeal | h2s | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.0 | 1.1.0 | 0.18.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 6 | 14 | 4 |
| Crate Size | 19KB | 446KB | 15KB |
| Features | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | 1.90 | 1.65 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •hotmeal leads with a health score of 49/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •h2s has the most downloads (12.1K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •⚠ h2s has not been updated in over a year.
- •html-helpers, h2s are pre-1.0 — API may change.