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portable-pty

v0.9.0 Growing

Cross platform pty interface

MIT Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.9K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
4.8M
Dependents
1.9K
Releases
11
Size
29KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

952.7K downloads in the last 30 days (31.8K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.9K crates depend on portable-pty. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

portable-pty has only 1 owner despite 1.9K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

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

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Compact crate

At 29KB, portable-pty is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include skim, tui-term, r3bl_tui, bottom, television. When high-quality crates choose portable-pty, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 10/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
29K/day avg+41%
010K20K30K40K50K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.1
55%
v0.9.0
43%
v0.7.0
1%
v0.3.1
0%
v0.4.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
17
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.9K
crates depend on portable-pty