async-recursion

6.7M downloads in the last 30 days (221.8K/day), up 26% from the previous period.

10.6K crates depend on async-recursion — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

async-recursion has only 1 owner despite 10.6K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 15 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

At 15KB, async-recursion is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include zbus, foundationdb, slack-morphism, vfs, datafusion-substrait. When high-quality crates choose async-recursion, it's a strong quality signal.