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cargo

v0.95.0 Growing

Cargo, a package manager for Rust.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.92

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 22d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.3K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (84 direct deps)

Security

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Downloads
6.4M
Dependents
2.3K
Releases
111
Size
2.9MB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

263.1K downloads in the last 30 days (8.8K/day), up 12% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.3K crates depend on cargo. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 150 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 10+ years old, cargo hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

84 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Large crate size

2.9MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pest_meta, cargo-udeps, cargo-c, cargo-outdated, cargo-local-registry. When high-quality crates choose cargo, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 22/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
8K/day avg+24%
010K20K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.89.0
32%
v0.86.0
25%
v0.66.0
15%
v0.81.0
15%
v0.61.1
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["http-transport-curl"]

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
84
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.3K
crates depend on cargo