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rp-pico

v0.9.0 Growing

Board Support Package for the Raspberry Pi Pico

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (27 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
501.9K
Dependents
62
Releases
13
Size
42KB

Deep Insights

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Download decline

21.4K downloads in the last 30 days, down 21% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, rp-pico hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

27 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Compact crate

At 41KB, rp-pico is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include dht-pio, rp2040-panic-usb-boot, stk8ba58, rp-rs-radio-clock, can2040. When high-quality crates choose rp-pico, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 5/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
912/day avg-50%
05001K2K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.9.0
65%
v0.8.0
18%
v0.7.0
10%
v0.3.0
4%
v0.5.0
3%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["boot2", "rt", "critical-section-impl", "rom-func-cache"]

rt*boot2*rp2040-e5rom-func-cache*rom-v2-intrinsicsdisable-intrinsicscritical-section-impl*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
27
direct dependencies
Dependents
62
crates depend on rp-pico