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async-compression

v0.4.42 Growing

Adaptors between compression crates and Rust's modern asynchronous IO types.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.83

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 31d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (5.7K crates depend on it)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (22 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
155.3M
Dependents
5.7K
Releases
69
Size
104KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

12.8M downloads in the last 30 days (426.6K/day), up 26% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

5.7K crates depend on async-compression. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, async-compression hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

22 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tower-http, warp, datafusion-datasource, poem, async_zip. When high-quality crates choose async-compression, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
372K/day avg+22%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.41
40%
v0.4.36
24%
v0.4.37
15%
v0.4.42
13%
v0.4.33
8%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
22
direct dependencies
Dependents
5.7K
crates depend on async-compression