ff
v0.14.0 GrowingLibrary for building and interfacing with finite fields
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 44d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (3.1K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
16.3M downloads in the last 30 days (543.4K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
3.1K crates depend on ff. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 99 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 9+ years old, ff hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 23KB, ff is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include curve25519-dalek, group, elliptic-curve, pasta_curves, bls12_381. When high-quality crates choose ff, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["bits", "std"]