flexbuffers

73.6K downloads in the last 30 days (2.5K/day), up 48% from the previous period.

3.2K crates depend on flexbuffers. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 5 years with 11 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

At 28KB, flexbuffers is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include spider, pax-chassis-macos, rill-protocol, ark-module, pax-chassis-common. When high-quality crates choose flexbuffers, it's a strong quality signal.