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binrw

v0.15.1 Growing

A Rust crate for helping read structs from binary data using ✨macro magic✨

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.70
EncodingParsing tools #binary#encode#decode#serialize#deserialize

Quick Verdict

  • Actively maintained (updated 24d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • Massive adoption (1.6K crates depend on it)
  • Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
7.2M
Dependents
1.6K
Releases
35
Size
94KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

725.1K downloads in the last 30 days (24.2K/day), up 8% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.6K crates depend on binrw. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, binrw hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include mcap, ntfs, eva-common, hash40, ipfixrw. When high-quality crates choose binrw, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days
20K/day avg+56%
010K20K30K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.12.0
70%
v0.14.1
10%
v0.11.2
9%
v0.15.0
7%
v0.13.3
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std", "verbose-backtrace"]

std*verbose-backtrace*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.6K
crates depend on binrw

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