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snailquote

v0.3.1 Growing

Escape and unescape strings with shell-inspired quoting

GPL-3.0-only Edition 2018
#escape#quote#unescape#shell-escape

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 4+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.1K crates depend on it)

Security

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Downloads
1.5M
Dependents
1.1K
Releases
5
Size
20KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

55.4K downloads in the last 30 days (1.8K/day), up 49% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.1K crates depend on snailquote. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

snailquote has only 1 owner despite 1.1K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, snailquote hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 19KB, snailquote is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include xplr, envfile, cw-orch-core, intuicio-frontend-simpleton, intuicio-frontend-assembler. When high-quality crates choose snailquote, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
1K/day avg+125%
01K2K3K4K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.1
80%
v0.2.0
11%
v0.3.0
6%
v0.1.1
3%
v0.1.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.1K
crates depend on snailquote

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