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faster-hex

v0.10.0 Growing

Fast hex encoding.

MIT Edition 2018
#hex#simd#no-std

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.5K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
41.4M
Dependents
2.5K
Releases
15
Size
13KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

4.0M downloads in the last 30 days (132.1K/day), up 35% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.5K crates depend on faster-hex. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, faster-hex hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 13KB, faster-hex is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Notable yanked versions

13% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include generic-array, hex, gix-hash, const-hex, gix-packetline. When high-quality crates choose faster-hex, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
113K/day avg+21%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.9.0
49%
v0.10.0
40%
v0.8.1
7%
v0.6.1
2%
v0.8.0
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std", "serde"]

std*allocserde*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
9
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.5K
crates depend on faster-hex

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