parity-scale-codec
v3.7.5 GrowingSCALE - Simple Concatenating Aggregated Little Endians
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- ✓Stable API (3.x for 6+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (22.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
2.8M downloads in the last 30 days (94.6K/day), up 13% from the previous period.
22.9K crates depend on parity-scale-codec — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 6 years with 64 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
28% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include impl-codec, multihash, scale-info, ruint, cid. When high-quality crates choose parity-scale-codec, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
