encoding_rs
v0.8.35 GrowingA Gecko-oriented implementation of the Encoding Standard
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (13.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license ((Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause)
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Deep Insights
30.3M downloads in the last 30 days (1.0M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
13.2K crates depend on encoding_rs — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
encoding_rs has only 1 owner despite 13.2K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 10+ years old, encoding_rs hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include reqwest, quick-xml, ureq, multer, actix-web. When high-quality crates choose encoding_rs, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["alloc"]