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icy_sixel

v0.5.0 Growing

A 100% Rust SIXEL encoder and decoder library with high-quality color quantization

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
EncodingMultimedia::ImagesGraphics #image#graphics#terminal#encoder#sixel

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • βœ“Trusted by 250 crates
  • βœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
631.7K
Dependents
250
Releases
11
Size
3.9MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

120.0K downloads in the last 30 days (4.0K/day), up 33% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

250 crates depend on icy_sixel. 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, icy_sixel hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Large crate size

3.9MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include viuer, ratatui-image, uiua, pulldown-cmark-mdcat, presenterm. When high-quality crates choose icy_sixel, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 10/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 8/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
3K/day avg-5%
02K4K6K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.1.3
48%
v0.5.0
41%
v0.1.2
9%
v0.1.1
2%
v0.4.3
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
250
crates depend on icy_sixel

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