shell-words

9.7M downloads in the last 30 days (322.8K/day), up 16% from the previous period.

10.5K crates depend on shell-words — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

shell-words has only 1 owner despite 10.5K 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 4 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

shell-words has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.

At 10KB, shell-words is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include dialoguer, glib-sys, gobject-sys, gix-command, gio-sys. When high-quality crates choose shell-words, it's a strong quality signal.