cotton
v0.1.1 GrowingA prelude with crates, types and functions useful for writing CLI tools.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- !Heavy dependency tree (33 direct deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
272 downloads in the last 30 days (9/day), up 22% from the previous period.
Despite being 6+ years old, cotton hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
33 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.
At 13KB, cotton is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include asn-tools, denim, odbc-tools, multiline, s3sb. When high-quality crates choose cotton, it's a strong quality signal.
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Most downloaded crates that depend on cotton
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Feature Flags
default =["regex", "args", "logging", "time", "term", "hashing", "files", "signals", "errors", "app", "exec", "process"]
