serde
v1.0.228 GrowingA generic serialization/deserialization framework
Quick Verdict
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 11+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (1.2M crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Tiny footprint (84KB, 2 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
80.5M downloads in the last 30 days (2.7M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
1.2M crates depend on serde — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 232 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 11 years with 315 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Only 2 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.
Notable dependents include hashbrown, bitflags, rand, indexmap, rand_chacha. When high-quality crates choose serde, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["std"]
