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gherkin

v0.16.0 Growing

Pure Rust implementation of Gherkin language (`.feature` file) for Cucumber testing framework.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.88
Parser implementationsCompilers #testing#bdd#cucumber#gherkin#cucumber-gherkin

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 32d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 112 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
15.6M
Dependents
112
Releases
9
Size
42KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

277.9K downloads in the last 30 days (9.3K/day), up 34% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

112 crates depend on gherkin. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, gherkin hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 41KB, gherkin is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cucumber, rstest-bdd-patterns, rstest-bdd, rstest-bdd-macros, cucumber-reporter. When high-quality crates choose gherkin, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
16K/day avg-77%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.14.0
86%
v0.13.0
9%
v0.12.0
3%
v0.15.0
2%
v0.16.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["parser"]

parser*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
14
direct dependencies
Dependents
112
crates depend on gherkin

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