regex-syntax
v0.8.10 GrowingA regular expression parser.
Quick Verdict
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (4.5K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Tiny footprint (359KB, 1 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
79.4M downloads in the last 30 days (2.6M/day), up 24% from the previous period.
4.5K crates depend on regex-syntax. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 84 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 11+ years old, regex-syntax hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Only 1 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.
Notable dependents include regex-automata, regex, globset, fancy-regex, proptest. When high-quality crates choose regex-syntax, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std", "unicode"]
