rustls
v0.23.37 GrowingRustls is a modern TLS library written in Rust.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 31d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (30.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- !Heavy dependency tree (26 direct deps)
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Deep Insights
47.3M downloads in the last 30 days (1.6M/day), up 17% from the previous period.
30.3K crates depend on rustls — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 9+ years old, rustls hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
26 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.
Notable dependents include tokio-rustls, webpki-roots, reqwest, hyper-rustls, rustls-native-certs. When high-quality crates choose rustls, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["aws_lc_rs", "logging", "prefer-post-quantum", "std", "tls12"]
