serde_json
v1.0.149 StableA JSON serialization file format
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 80d ago)
- ✓Stable API (1.x for 10+ years)
- ✓Massive adoption (673.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
54.9M downloads in the last 30 days (1.8M/day), up 17% from the previous period.
673.2K crates depend on serde_json — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 231 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 10 years with 181 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
Notable dependents include bitflags, rand, rand_chacha, log, either. When high-quality crates choose serde_json, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["std"]
