serial2
v0.2.34 GrowingCross platform serial ports
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 39d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 133 crates
- ✓Permissive license (BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
781.0K downloads in the last 30 days (26.0K/day), up 154% from the previous period.
133 crates depend on serial2. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 67 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 4+ years old, serial2 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 35KB, serial2 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include portable-pty, serial2-tokio, dynamixel2, fdcanusb, mlua-periphery. When high-quality crates choose serial2, it's a strong quality signal.
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