itertools
v0.14.0 GrowingExtra iterator adaptors, iterator methods, free functions, and macros.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (137.8K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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73.1M downloads in the last 30 days (2.4M/day), up 20% from the previous period.
137.8K crates depend on itertools — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 11+ years old, itertools hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include indexmap, toml, zerocopy, prost-derive, petgraph. When high-quality crates choose itertools, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["use_std"]
