rayon
v1.11.0 GrowingSimple work-stealing parallelism for Rust
Quick Verdict
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 10+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (105.0K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
22.9M downloads in the last 30 days (762.1K/day), up 24% from the previous period.
105.0K crates depend on rayon — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 71 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 10 years with 39 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Notable dependents include syn, hashbrown, proc-macro2, rand, indexmap. When high-quality crates choose rayon, it's a strong quality signal.
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