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ciborium

v0.2.2 Growing

serde implementation of CBOR using ciborium-basic

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.58

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (6.2K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
138.7M
Dependents
6.2K
Releases
4
Size
36KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

11.9M downloads in the last 30 days (396.1K/day), up 20% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

6.2K crates depend on ciborium. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, ciborium hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 35KB, ciborium is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include criterion, blake3, aws-smithy-types, serdect, coset. When high-quality crates choose ciborium, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 19/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
318K/day avg+66%
0100K200K300K400K500K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.2
67%
v0.2.1
23%
v0.2.0
9%
v0.1.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
6.2K
crates depend on ciborium

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