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pretty

v0.12.5 Growing

Wadler-style pretty-printing combinators in Rust

MIT Edition 2018
#functional#console#pretty-printing

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
18.4M
Dependents
1.4K
Releases
33
Size
30KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

1.3M downloads in the last 30 days (43.1K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.4K crates depend on pretty. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

pretty has only 1 owner despite 1.4K 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 11+ years old, pretty hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

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

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cedar-policy-formatter, candid, cynic-parser, abnf_to_pest, candid_parser. When high-quality crates choose pretty, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

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
37K/day avg-42%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.12.5
37%
v0.12.4
22%
v0.11.3
21%
v0.12.3
16%
v0.12.1
4%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.4K
crates depend on pretty

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