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diffy

v0.5.0 Growing

Tools for finding and manipulating differences between files

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85.0
Text processing #diff#patch#merge

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 28d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.3K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
11.3M
Dependents
1.3K
Releases
11
Size
83KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

842.9K downloads in the last 30 days (28.1K/day), up 20% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.3K crates depend on diffy. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

diffy has only 1 owner despite 1.3K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, diffy hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include hakari, diesel_cli, cairo-lang-formatter, pilota-build, surrealdb-migrations. When high-quality crates choose diffy, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 15/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

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
25K/day avg+15%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.0
49%
v0.4.2
32%
v0.4.0
13%
v0.2.2
4%
v0.2.1
3%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.3K
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