prost
v0.14.3 GrowingA Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 76d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (54.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
31.6M downloads in the last 30 days (1.1M/day), up 19% from the previous period.
54.9K crates depend on prost — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 8+ years old, prost hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 32KB, prost is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
11% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include prost-types, prost-build, opentelemetry-otlp, opentelemetry-proto, prost-reflect. When high-quality crates choose prost, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
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Most downloaded crates that depend on prost
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Feature Flags
default =["derive", "std"]
