regex-lite
v0.1.9 GrowingA lightweight regex engine that optimizes for binary size and compilation time.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 52d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (40.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Tiny footprint (96KB, 2 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
10.4M downloads in the last 30 days (348.0K/day), up 18% from the previous period.
40.9K crates depend on regex-lite — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 84 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 3+ years old, regex-lite hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Only 2 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.
Notable dependents include aws-sdk-sts, aws-sdk-sso, aws-runtime, actix-web, actix-router. When high-quality crates choose regex-lite, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["std", "string"]
