Decision Workspace
varing vs const-varint vs grpc
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
60
varing
growingv0.13.0
Protobuf's varint encoding/decoding for LEB128 friendly types with full const context operations supports.
48
const-varint
growingv0.4.2+deprecated
(Deprecated) This crate is deprecated. Please use `varing` instead.
62
grpc
growingv0.8.3
The official Rust implementation of gRPC: a high performance, open source, universal RPC framework.
Core Metrics
| varing | const-varint | grpc | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 60 | 48 | 62 |
| Total Downloads | 18.6K | 21.6K | 993.1K |
| 30d Downloads | 1.6K | 0 | 7.5K |
| Dependents | 31 | 7 | 109 |
| Releases | 16 | 12 | 29 |
| Last Updated | 62d ago | 421d ago | 1d ago |
| Age | 1y 1m | 1y 3m | 9y 9m |
Health Breakdown
varing
Maintenance
15
Quality
15
Community
10
Popularity
5
Documentation
15
const-varint
Maintenance
8
Quality
12
Community
8
Popularity
5
Documentation
15
grpc
Maintenance
16
Quality
13
Community
17
Popularity
7
Documentation
9
Technical Details
| varing | const-varint | grpc | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.13.0 | 0.4.2+deprecated | 0.8.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT/Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 29 | 12 | 10 |
| Crate Size | 68KB | 31KB | 29KB |
| Features | 31 | 10 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 25.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2018 |
| MSRV | 1.85.0 | 1.81.0 | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 2 (team) |
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Quick Verdict
- •grpc leads with a health score of 62/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •grpc is depended on by 109 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ const-varint has not been updated in over a year.