peekable
v0.6.1 GrowingBuffered peek for `Read` and async readers (tokio, futures): inspect incoming bytes without consuming them. Useful for protocol detection, length-prefixed framing, and header inspection.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 32d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
19.0K downloads in the last 30 days (632/day), up 165% from the previous period.
The primary maintainer publishes 129 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 2+ years old, peekable hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
25% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include memberlist-core, memberlist-net, memberlist-quic, archive-to-parquet, memberlist-proto. When high-quality crates choose peekable, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["smallvec"]
