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rental

v0.5.6 Growing

A macro to generate safe self-referential structs, plus premade types for common use cases.

MIT/Apache-2.0
Rust patternsNo standard library #reference#lifetime#self#ownership#borrowing

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 4+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 271 crates
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (17KB, 2 deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
2.6M
Dependents
271
Releases
37
Size
17KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

120.1K downloads in the last 30 days (4.0K/day), up 860% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

271 crates depend on rental. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, rental hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 2 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, rental is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Notable yanked versions

22% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include suffix_array, al-sys, solana_libra_vm_runtime, conch-runtime, akashi. When high-quality crates choose rental, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
2K/day avg+343%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.5.6
51%
v0.5.5
40%
v0.5.4
7%
v0.5.3
1%
v0.4.16
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
2
direct dependencies
Dependents
271
crates depend on rental

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