blake3
v1.8.3 Stablethe BLAKE3 hash function
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 78d ago)
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 6+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (18.1K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (CC0-1.0 OR Apache-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception)
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Deep Insights
8.9M downloads in the last 30 days (296.2K/day), up 19% from the previous period.
18.1K crates depend on blake3 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
blake3 has only 1 owner despite 18.1K 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 42 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Notable dependents include datafusion-functions, polkavm-common, polars-io, polars-plan, cargo. When high-quality crates choose blake3, it's a strong quality signal.
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