prost-build

22.8M downloads in the last 30 days (758.5K/day), up 27% from the previous period.

10.6K crates depend on prost-build — 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-build hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

At 48KB, prost-build is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

13% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

Notable dependents include prost-reflect, pprof, metrics-exporter-prometheus, prometheus-client, pbjson-types. When high-quality crates choose prost-build, it's a strong quality signal.