rustio rustio.net
54

comma

v1.0.0 Growing

Shell-style command parser with support for escaping and quotations.

MIT Edition 2018
Command-line interfaceParsing toolsParser implementations #command#parsing#shell#parse#string

Quick Verdict

  • Not updated for 4+ years
  • Stable API (1.x for 6+ years)
  • Trusted by 103 crates
  • Tiny footprint (2KB, 0 deps)
  • Permissive license (MIT)

Security

Checking security advisories...
Downloads
3.1M
Dependents
103
Releases
4
Size
2KB

Deep Insights

📊
Steady growth

273.3K downloads in the last 30 days (9.1K/day), up 20% from the previous period.

🔗
Moderate adoption

103 crates depend on comma. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

Stable for 6+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 4 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

🪶
Zero dependencies

comma has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.

📐
Compact crate

At 2KB, comma is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

🌟
Used by top crates

Notable dependents include ui_test, rexpect, gnostr, mx-tester, anticipate-core. When high-quality crates choose comma, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 3/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 21/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days
8K/day avg-3%
05K10K15K20K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v1.0.0
99%
v0.1.2
0%
v0.1.1
0%
v0.1.0
0%

Release Timeline

4 releasessince 2019
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
2019
3
2020
2021
1
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Less
More

README

Loading README...

Maintainers

Dependencies
0
direct dependencies
Dependents
103
crates depend on comma

Similar Crates