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malachite-bigint

v0.9.1 Growing

A drop-in num-bigint replacement based on malachite

LGPL-3.0-only Edition 2024 MSRV 1.90.0

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)

Security

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Downloads
5.4M
Dependents
59
Releases
15
Size
13KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

644.5K downloads in the last 30 days (21.5K/day), up 6% from the previous period.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 66 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 2+ years old, malachite-bigint hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 13KB, malachite-bigint is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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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 rustpython-parser, rustpython-ast, clvmr, rustpython-format, rustpython-compiler-core. When high-quality crates choose malachite-bigint, 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 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
20K/day avg+18%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.3
96%
v0.9.1
2%
v0.6.1
1%
v0.6.0
0%
v0.9.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
59
crates depend on malachite-bigint