embassy-nrf

v0.10.0 Growing

Embassy Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for nRF series microcontrollers

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024

Asynchronous Hardware support Embedded development No standard library #embedded#async#nordic#nrf#embedded-hal

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Quick Verdict

✓Actively maintained (updated 66d ago)
!Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
✓Team maintained (2 owners)
!Heavy dependency tree (28 direct deps)
✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads

457.7K

Dependents

Releases

Size

141KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

45.4K downloads in the last 30 days (1.5K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 160 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

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

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Heavy dependency tree

28 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include lsm303agr, rmk, embassy-boot-nrf, microbit-bsp, nrf-mpsl. When high-quality crates choose embassy-nrf, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 12/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days

2K/day avg+8%

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on embassy-nrf

Version Adoption

v0.8.0

60%

v0.3.1

20%

v0.10.0

10%

v0.9.0

v0.6.0

Release Timeline

10 releasessince 2025

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Feature Flags

default =["rt"]

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