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dirs-sys

v0.5.0 Growing

System-level helper functions for the dirs and directories crates.

MIT OR Apache-2.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 175 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
202.0M
Dependents
175
Releases
13
Size
10KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

17.0M downloads in the last 30 days (566.6K/day), up 31% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

175 crates depend on dirs-sys. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, dirs-sys hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 10KB, dirs-sys is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include dirs, directories, nu-protocol, dirs2, task-keeper. When high-quality crates choose dirs-sys, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 7/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 8/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
431K/day avg+83%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.1
35%
v0.3.7
32%
v0.5.0
22%
v0.3.6
7%
v0.3.5
3%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
175
crates depend on dirs-sys