serde-aux

1.3M downloads in the last 30 days (42.2K/day), up 31% from the previous period.

1.6K crates depend on serde-aux. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

serde-aux has only 1 owner despite 1.6K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 8 years with 32 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

At 16KB, serde-aux is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include songbird, stellar-rpc-client, soroban-cli, mehari, icu_datagen. When high-quality crates choose serde-aux, it's a strong quality signal.