crossbeam-channel
v0.5.15 GrowingMulti-producer multi-consumer channels for message passing
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (35.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (4 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
36.1M downloads in the last 30 days (1.2M/day), up 23% from the previous period.
35.2K crates depend on crossbeam-channel — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (4 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 8+ years old, crossbeam-channel hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
31% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include flume, ignore, notify, crossbeam, hdrhistogram. When high-quality crates choose crossbeam-channel, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
