bzip2
v0.6.1 GrowingBindings to libbzip2 for bzip2 compression and decompression exposed as Reader/Writer streams.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (6.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
9.1M downloads in the last 30 days (304.8K/day), up 18% from the previous period.
6.2K crates depend on bzip2. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 215 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 11+ years old, bzip2 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 38KB, bzip2 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include rustls-webpki, zip, async-compression, compression-codecs, datafusion. When high-quality crates choose bzip2, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["dep:libbz2-rs-sys"]
