strsim
v0.11.1 GrowingImplementations of string similarity metrics. Includes Hamming, Levenshtein, OSA, Damerau-Levenshtein, Jaro, Jaro-Winkler, and Sørensen-Dice.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 2+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (11.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Tiny footprint (14KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
63.9M downloads in the last 30 days (2.1M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
11.7K crates depend on strsim — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
Despite being 11+ years old, strsim hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
strsim has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 14KB, strsim is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include clap_builder, darling_core, docopt, mongodb, wezterm-dynamic. When high-quality crates choose strsim, it's a strong quality signal.
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