prost-build
v0.14.3 GrowingGenerate Prost annotated Rust types from Protocol Buffers files.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 76d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (9.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
19.5M downloads in the last 30 days (648.9K/day), up 20% from the previous period.
9.7K crates depend on prost-build. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
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 opentelemetry-proto, prost-reflect, pprof, prometheus-client, metrics-exporter-prometheus. When high-quality crates choose prost-build, it's a strong quality signal.
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