futures
v0.3.32 GrowingAn implementation of futures and streams featuring zero allocations, composability, and iterator-like interfaces.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 40d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (235.0K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
- !32% of releases were yanked
Security
Deep Insights
37.6M downloads in the last 30 days (1.3M/day), up 22% from the previous period.
235.0K crates depend on futures — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 215 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 9+ years old, futures hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
32% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include anyhow, tokio, futures-util, tracing, tokio-util. When high-quality crates choose futures, it's a strong quality signal.
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Most downloaded crates that depend on futures
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Feature Flags
default =["std", "async-await", "executor"]
