fastrand
v2.4.1 StableA simple and fast random number generator
Quick Verdict
- ✓Stable API (2.x for 6+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (50.5K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
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Deep Insights
57.8M downloads in the last 30 days (1.9M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
50.5K crates depend on fastrand — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 118 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 29 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
At 20KB, fastrand is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include indexmap, tempfile, phf_generator, portable-atomic, concurrent-queue. When high-quality crates choose fastrand, it's a strong quality signal.
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