heck
v0.5.0 Growingheck is a case conversion library.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (18.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Tiny footprint (12KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
60.6M downloads in the last 30 days (2.0M/day), up 19% from the previous period.
18.9K crates depend on heck — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 9+ years old, heck hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
heck has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 11KB, heck is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include clap_derive, strum_macros, prost-build, pyo3-macros-backend, enum-as-inner. When high-quality crates choose heck, it's a strong quality signal.
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