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puffin

v0.20.0 Growing

Simple instrumentation profiler for games

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.92.0
Development tools::Profiling #gamedev#profiler#instrumentation

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 9d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.5K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
3.7M
Dependents
1.5K
Releases
35
Size
36KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

233.9K downloads in the last 30 days (7.8K/day), up 14% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.5K crates depend on puffin. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 81 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, puffin hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 35KB, puffin is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include profiling, puffin_http, re_tracing, rerun, risc0-zkvm. When high-quality crates choose puffin, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
7K/day avg+27%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.19.1
73%
v0.19.0
14%
v0.16.0
8%
v0.17.0
2%
v0.14.3
2%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
13
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.5K
crates depend on puffin

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