prettyplease
v0.2.37 GrowingA minimal `syn` syntax tree pretty-printer
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (10.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
35.5M downloads in the last 30 days (1.2M/day), up 29% from the previous period.
10.9K crates depend on prettyplease — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 231 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 4+ years old, prettyplease hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include zerocopy-derive, bindgen, prost-build, tonic-build, libsqlite3-sys. When high-quality crates choose prettyplease, it's a strong quality signal.
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