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plist

v1.8.0 Growing

A rusty plist parser. Supports Serde serialization.

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.81

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Stable API (1.x for 10+ years)
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.5K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
29.6M
Dependents
2.5K
Releases
54
Size
55KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

3.4M downloads in the last 30 days (114.2K/day), up 53% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.5K crates depend on plist. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

plist has only 1 owner despite 2.5K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Stable for 10+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 10 years with 54 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include syntect, tauri, tauri-codegen, tauri-plugin, bat. When high-quality crates choose plist, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 10/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 20/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
80K/day avg+107%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v1.8.0
33%
v1.7.0
22%
v1.7.4
16%
v1.6.1
16%
v1.7.1
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["serde"]

enable_unstable_features_that_may_break_with_minor_version_bumps

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.5K
crates depend on plist

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