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goblin

v0.10.6 Growing

An impish, cross-platform, ELF, Mach-o, and PE binary parsing and loading crate

MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85.0
Development tools::DebuggingParsing tools #binary#elf#archive#mach#pe

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 0d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (3.9K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
51.2M
Dependents
3.9K
Releases
65
Size
271KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

4.3M downloads in the last 30 days (143.4K/day), up 23% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

3.9K crates depend on goblin. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

goblin has only 1 owner despite 3.9K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 10+ years old, goblin hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include uniffi_bindgen, libbpf-rs, cargo-zigbuild, libbpf-cargo, fat-macho. When high-quality crates choose goblin, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 20/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
134K/day avg-5%
050K100K150K200K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.9.3
41%
v0.9.2
16%
v0.10.1
15%
v0.10.3
14%
v0.10.5
14%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std", "elf32", "elf64", "mach32", "mach64", "pe32", "pe64", "te", "archive", "endian_fd"]

te*std*pe32*pe64*allocelf32*elf64*mach32*mach64*archive*endian_fd*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
3.9K
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