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inquire

v0.9.4 Growing

inquire is a library for building interactive prompts on terminals

MIT Edition 2018 MSRV 1.80.0
Command-line interfaceValue formatting #cli#interactive#prompt#question#ask

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (10.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
17.1M
Dependents
10.4K
Releases
40
Size
101KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

1.9M downloads in the last 30 days (64.9K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Foundational crate

10.4K crates depend on inquire โ€” it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

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Single maintainer risk

inquire has only 1 owner despite 10.4K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, inquire hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Notable yanked versions

13% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include rodio, ast-grep, git-disjoint, komac, simsearch. When high-quality crates choose inquire, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 12/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
56K/day avg-45%
020K40K60K80K100K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.5
66%
v0.9.4
24%
v0.9.1
7%
v0.9.2
2%
v0.9.3
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["macros", "crossterm", "one-liners", "fuzzy"]

datefuzzy*editormacros*one-liners*experimental-multiline-input

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
10.4K
crates depend on inquire

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