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cranelift-frontend

v0.133.1 Growing

Cranelift IR builder helper

Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception Edition 2024 MSRV 1.94.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 19d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception)

Security

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Downloads
39.2M
Dependents
2.4K
Releases
244
Size
60KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

3.2M downloads in the last 30 days (105.3K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.4K crates depend on cranelift-frontend. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 151 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 8+ years old, cranelift-frontend hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include wasmtime-cranelift, cranelift-wasm, wasmtime-internal-cranelift, wasmer-compiler-cranelift, cranelift-jit. When high-quality crates choose cranelift-frontend, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 19/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

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
90K/day avg-39%
050K100K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.133.1
36%
v0.132.1
18%
v0.131.3
17%
v0.132.2
16%
v0.132.3
12%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*core

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.4K
crates depend on cranelift-frontend