dialoguer
v0.12.0 GrowingA command line prompting library.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (21.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
4.6M downloads in the last 30 days (152.6K/day), up 32% from the previous period.
21.3K crates depend on dialoguer — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 57 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 8+ years old, dialoguer hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 31KB, dialoguer is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include cargo-nextest, svm-rs, sqlx-cli, solana-remote-wallet, password-rules-parser. When high-quality crates choose dialoguer, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["editor", "password"]
