rand
v0.10.2 GrowingRandom number generators and other randomness functionality.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 2d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (364.1K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
115.5M downloads in the last 30 days (3.9M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
364.1K crates depend on rand — 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 11+ years old, rand hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include hashbrown, base64, itertools, unicode-ident, ryu. When high-quality crates choose rand, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std", "std_rng", "sys_rng", "thread_rng"]
