inkwell

v0.8.0 Growing

Inkwell aims to help you pen your own programming languages by safely wrapping llvm-sys.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021

Development tools::FFI #wrapper#llvm#safe

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Quick Verdict

✓Actively maintained (updated 78d ago)
!Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
✓Trusted by 847 crates
✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads

1.1M

Dependents

847

Releases

Size

208KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

88.2K downloads in the last 30 days (2.9K/day), up 34% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

847 crates depend on inkwell. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, inkwell hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include wasmer-compiler-llvm, hugr-llvm, diffsl, solang, llvm-plugin. When high-quality crates choose inkwell, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 12/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days

2K/day avg+58%

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on inkwell

Version Adoption

v0.1.1

28%

v0.5.0

24%

v0.1.0-beta.4

22%

v0.6.0

14%

v0.2.0

12%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["target-all"]

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README

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Maintainers

Dan Kolsoi

4 crates

Dependencies

direct dependencies