num-bigint
v0.4.6 GrowingBig integer implementation for Rust
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (29.6K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
26.9M downloads in the last 30 days (895.1K/day), up 25% from the previous period.
29.6K crates depend on num-bigint — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
num-bigint has only 1 owner despite 29.6K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 9+ years old, num-bigint hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include rustls, num-rational, num, crypto-bigint, pyo3. When high-quality crates choose num-bigint, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["std"]
