rental
v0.5.6 GrowingA macro to generate safe self-referential structs, plus premade types for common use cases.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 5+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 271 crates
- ✓Tiny footprint (17KB, 2 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
26.3K downloads in the last 30 days (878/day), up 3% from the previous period.
271 crates depend on rental. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 9+ years old, rental 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.
At 16KB, rental is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
22% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
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.
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