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protox

v0.9.1 Growing

A rust implementation of the protobuf compiler.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.74.0

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 557 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
10.7M
Dependents
557
Releases
21
Size
43KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

754.2K downloads in the last 30 days (25.1K/day), up 21% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

557 crates depend on protox. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 3+ years old, protox hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 42KB, protox is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include prost-wkt-types, zksync_protobuf_build, celestia-proto, sentencepiece-model, warg-protobuf. When high-quality crates choose protox, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 11/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
31K/day avg-55%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.2
50%
v0.9.1
24%
v0.5.1
10%
v0.6.1
8%
v0.9.0
7%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
17
direct dependencies
Dependents
557
crates depend on protox

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