log
v0.4.29 GrowingA lightweight logging facade for Rust
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (327.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (6 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
53.7M downloads in the last 30 days (1.8M/day), up 16% from the previous period.
327.7K crates depend on log — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 59 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 11+ years old, log hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
10% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include rand, memchr, regex-automata, aho-corasick, mio. When high-quality crates choose log, it's a strong quality signal.
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