rlp
v0.6.1 GrowingRecursive-length prefix encoding, decoding, and compression
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (1.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
2.2M downloads in the last 30 days (73.9K/day), up 31% from the previous period.
1.9K crates depend on rlp. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 9+ years old, rlp hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 14KB, rlp is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include crypto-bigint, impl-rlp, ruint, rlp-derive, ethers-core. When high-quality crates choose rlp, it's a strong quality signal.
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