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colored-diff

v0.2.3 Growing

Format the difference between two strings with ANSI colors

MIT OR Unlicense
Development tools::Testing #difference#diff#pretty-assertions

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 4+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 317 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Unlicense)

Security

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Downloads
1.4M
Dependents
317
Releases
7
Size
6KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

51.6K downloads in the last 30 days (1.7K/day), up 92% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

317 crates depend on colored-diff. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, colored-diff hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 6KB, colored-diff is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include biscuit-auth, dhall, golem-wasm-ast, anyinput-core, darkroom. When high-quality crates choose colored-diff, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 3/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 8/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
1K/day avg+63%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.3
82%
v0.2.2
17%
v0.2.1
0%
v0.2.0
0%
v0.1.2
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
317
crates depend on colored-diff

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