piper
v0.2.5 GrowingAn asynchronous single-consumer single-producer pipe for bytes.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 87d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 163 crates
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
7.6M downloads in the last 30 days (253.5K/day), up 19% from the previous period.
163 crates depend on piper. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 118 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, piper hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 23KB, piper is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include blocking, alacritty_terminal, ether-dream-dac-emulator, manx, smtp-server. When high-quality crates choose piper, it's a strong quality signal.
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