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cairo-sys-rs

v0.22.0 Growing

FFI bindings to libcairo

MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.92
#ffi#cairo#gnome#gtk-rs

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • βœ“Trusted by 560 crates
  • βœ“Team maintained (4 owners)
  • βœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
28.4M
Dependents
560
Releases
45
Size
15KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

3.1M downloads in the last 30 days (102.6K/day), up 13% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

560 crates depend on cairo-sys-rs. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 117 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, cairo-sys-rs hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 14KB, cairo-sys-rs is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cairo-rs, gdk-sys, gtk-sys, gdkx11-sys, webkit2gtk-sys. When high-quality crates choose cairo-sys-rs, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 12/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 17/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
80K/day avg-29%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.20.10
42%
v0.21.5
22%
v0.22.0
18%
v0.21.2
11%
v0.21.1
8%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
560
crates depend on cairo-sys-rs

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