simple-bytes
v0.2.14 GrowingA small and easy crate to mutate or read u8 slices
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Tiny footprint (13KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
26.3K downloads in the last 30 days (877/day), up 57% from the previous period.
Despite being 5+ years old, simple-bytes hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
simple-bytes has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 13KB, simple-bytes is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include gpt, linux-info, fire-stream-api, fire-stream, fire-protobuf. When high-quality crates choose simple-bytes, it's a strong quality signal.
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