borsh
v1.6.1 StableBinary Object Representation Serializer for Hashing
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 68d ago)
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 6+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (13.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
11.7M downloads in the last 30 days (390.5K/day), up 27% from the previous period.
13.3K crates depend on borsh — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 103 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 58 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Notable dependents include indexmap, uuid, tinyvec, arrayvec, ordered-float. When high-quality crates choose borsh, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
