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homedir

v0.3.6 Growing

A crate to help get the home directory of any user on a system.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.88
FilesystemConfiguration #utility#profile#directory#home#lightweight

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 959 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
  • !33% of releases were yanked

Security

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Downloads
2.7M
Dependents
959
Releases
9
Size
17KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

205.4K downloads in the last 30 days (6.8K/day), up 27% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

959 crates depend on homedir. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 2+ years old, homedir hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, homedir is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Notable yanked versions

33% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include trunk, mise, axoupdater, xx, vfox. When high-quality crates choose homedir, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 8/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
6K/day avg+42%
02K4K6K8K10K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.4
43%
v0.2.1
25%
v0.3.6
20%
v0.3.3
10%
v0.3.5
1%

Release Timeline

9 releases3 yankedsince 2023
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Feature Flags

default =["windows-coinitialize"]

windows-coinitialize*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
959
crates depend on homedir

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