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piper

v0.2.5 Growing

An asynchronous single-consumer single-producer pipe for bytes.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.36

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 169 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
115.8M
Dependents
169
Releases
10
Size
24KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

8.5M downloads in the last 30 days (284.6K/day), up 1% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

169 crates depend on piper. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 118 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, piper hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 23KB, piper is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

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.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 10/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
241K/day avg-38%
0100K200K300K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.4
63%
v0.2.1
15%
v0.2.5
15%
v0.2.3
6%
v0.2.2
2%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*portable-atomic

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
11
direct dependencies
Dependents
169
crates depend on piper