base64
v0.22.1 Growingencodes and decodes base64 as bytes or utf8
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (194.4K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
86.4M downloads in the last 30 days (2.9M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
194.4K crates depend on base64 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 10+ years old, base64 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include rustls, rustls-webpki, reqwest, axum, hyper-util. When high-quality crates choose base64, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["std"]