ansi_term
v0.12.1 GrowingLibrary for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 6+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (15.0K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
5.3M downloads in the last 30 days, down 33% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.
15.0K crates depend on ansi_term — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 11+ years old, ansi_term hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 24KB, ansi_term is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include simplelog, ansi_colours, lscolors, swc_ecma_minifier, swc_ecma_transforms_testing. When high-quality crates choose ansi_term, it's a strong quality signal.
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