Decision Workspace
printio vs shared_io_utils vs read-write-pipe
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
A simple library to intercept a Reader or Writer and print it to something on its way in or out. Useful for debugging.
A utility to provide more convenient `Read` `Write` `Seek` `Debug` `Cursor` that could be shared, e.g. `SharedReader`, `SharedWriter`, `SharedReadWrite`, `DishonestReader` for modifying data using closures when being called `read()`, `CombinedReader` combines two readers but you can 'slice' the readers to make it only able to read parts of them, `CursorVecU8` have a better formatting behavior, `SharedCursor` shares a `CursorVecU8`, `MultistreamIO` allows you to switch its streams to read or write, `SharedMultistreamIO` shares the `MultistreamIO`. All of these 'shared' version are used for the 3rd party library to read/write and you can capture the data or modify the data.
A trait for objects implementing Write, to write all content from a Read object.
Core Metrics
| printio | shared_io_utils | read-write-pipe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 48 | 43 | 42 |
| Total Downloads | 5.2K | 3.0K | 13.4K |
| 30d Downloads | 9 | 58 | 62 |
| Dependents | 0 | 17 | 121 |
| Releases | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Last Updated | 1151d ago | 311d ago | 2408d ago |
| Age | 3y 1m | 10m | 6y 7m |
Health Breakdown
Technical Details
| printio | shared_io_utils | read-write-pipe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.2 | 0.0.5 | 0.1.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | non-standard | Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Crate Size | 2KB | 18KB | 7KB |
| Features | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2018 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •printio leads with a health score of 48/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •read-write-pipe has the most downloads (13.4K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •read-write-pipe is depended on by 121 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ printio, read-write-pipe have not been updated in over a year.