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salsa

v0.26.2 Growing

A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation (experimental)

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 22d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.7K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (36 direct deps)

Security

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Downloads
5.3M
Dependents
2.7K
Releases
57
Size
258KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

581.8K downloads in the last 30 days (19.4K/day), up 29% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.7K crates depend on salsa. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 75 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, salsa hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

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

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cairo-lang-utils, cairo-lang-debug, cairo-lang-filesystem, cairo-lang-syntax, cairo-lang-diagnostics. When high-quality crates choose salsa, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
15K/day avg+97%
05K10K15K20K25K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.23.0
30%
v0.21.1
22%
v0.24.0
17%
v0.25.2
17%
v0.26.0
13%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["salsa_unstable", "rayon", "macros", "inventory", "accumulator"]

macros*shuttleinventory*accumulator*persistencesalsa_unstable*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
36
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.7K
crates depend on salsa