hotwatch
v0.5.0 GrowingA Rust library for conveniently watching and handling file changes.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 270 crates
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
6.9K downloads in the last 30 days (232/day), up 35% from the previous period.
270 crates depend on hotwatch. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 9+ years old, hotwatch hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 16KB, hotwatch is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include oxygengine-ignite, rustypaste, aster-proxy, bunbun, marmite. When high-quality crates choose hotwatch, it's a strong quality signal.
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