duct

1.6M downloads in the last 30 days (54.3K/day), up 19% from the previous period.

4.3K crates depend on duct. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

duct has only 1 owner despite 4.3K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 10 years with 28 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

At 36KB, duct is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include cargo-nextest, roff, sasl2-sys, sigchld, cargo-llvm-cov. When high-quality crates choose duct, it's a strong quality signal.