octets
v0.3.5 GrowingZero-copy abstraction for parsing and constructing network packets
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 88d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 175 crates
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Tiny footprint (23KB, 0 deps)
Security
Deep Insights
213.9K downloads in the last 30 days (7.1K/day), up 9% from the previous period.
175 crates depend on octets. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 4+ years old, octets hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
octets has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 22KB, octets is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include quiche, tokio-quiche, wtransport-proto, renet, renet2. When high-quality crates choose octets, it's a strong quality signal.
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