async-trait
v0.1.89 GrowingType erasure for async trait methods
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (216.0K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
35.7M downloads in the last 30 days (1.2M/day), up 21% from the previous period.
216.0K crates depend on async-trait — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 231 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, async-trait hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 31KB, async-trait is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include tracing-attributes, tonic, mockall, opentelemetry-otlp, opentelemetry-http. When high-quality crates choose async-trait, it's a strong quality signal.
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