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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 206 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
277.7M
Dependents
206
Releases
13
Size
10KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

23.5M downloads in the last 30 days (782.1K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

206 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 7+ 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
661K/day avg-37%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.1
33%
v0.5.0
31%
v0.3.7
27%
v0.3.6
6%
v0.3.5
2%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
206
crates depend on dirs-sys