libloading
v0.9.0 GrowingBindings around the platform's dynamic library loading primitives with greatly improved memory safety.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (17.0K crates depend on it)
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Deep Insights
33.3M downloads in the last 30 days (1.1M/day), up 3% from the previous period.
17.0K crates depend on libloading — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
libloading has only 1 owner despite 17.0K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 10+ years old, libloading hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 33KB, libloading is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include backtrace, clang-sys, jni, dlib, x11rb. When high-quality crates choose libloading, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["std"]