dwrote
v0.11.5 GrowingLightweight binding to DirectWrite.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 118 crates
- ✓Team maintained (4 owners)
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Deep Insights
930.2K downloads in the last 30 days (31.0K/day), up 22% from the previous period.
118 crates depend on dwrote. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
This crate is maintained by a team (4 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 9+ years old, dwrote hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 23KB, dwrote is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include font-kit, crossfont, piet-direct2d, wr_glyph_rasterizer, zed-font-kit. When high-quality crates choose dwrote, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["serde_serialization"]
