getrandom
v0.4.2 GrowingA small cross-platform library for retrieving random data from system source
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 83d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (37.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
143.1M downloads in the last 30 days (4.8M/day), up 26% from the previous period.
37.3K crates depend on getrandom — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 7+ years old, getrandom hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include rand, rand_chacha, fastrand, tempfile, ahash. When high-quality crates choose getrandom, it's a strong quality signal.
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