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cranelift-frontend

v0.130.0 Growing

Cranelift IR builder helper

Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception Edition 2024 MSRV 1.91.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 7d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception)

Security

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Downloads
29.1M
Dependents
1.4K
Releases
220
Size
57KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

2.1M downloads in the last 30 days (71.3K/day), up 59% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.4K 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 7+ 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, wasmer-compiler-cranelift, wasmtime-internal-cranelift, cranelift-jit. When high-quality crates choose cranelift-frontend, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 20/25

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
50K/day avg+100%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.95.1
39%
v0.91.1
18%
v0.82.3
18%
v0.110.2
13%
v0.122.0
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*core

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.4K
crates depend on cranelift-frontend