boxen

v0.4.0 Experimental

A Rust library for creating styled terminal boxes around text with performance optimizations

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85.0

Command line utilities Text processing #text#terminal#cli#box#formatting

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Quick Verdict

✓Actively maintained (updated 42d ago)
!Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads

9.4K

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149KB

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Download decline

976 downloads in the last 30 days, down 49% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 16/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

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Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 5/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

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Top Dependents

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Version Adoption

v0.1.3

87%

v0.3.1

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Release Timeline

9 releasessince 2025

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Feature Flags

dhat-heapwidth-cacheterminal-cache

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Maintainers

Sabry Awad

20 crates

Dependencies

direct dependencies