nix
v0.31.3 GrowingRust friendly bindings to *nix APIs
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 15d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (40.6K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
46.9M downloads in the last 30 days (1.6M/day), up 20% from the previous period.
40.6K crates depend on nix — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 194 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 11+ years old, nix hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include tokio, jobserver, notify, ctrlc, object_store. When high-quality crates choose nix, it's a strong quality signal.
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