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tectonic

v0.16.9 Growing

A modernized, complete, embeddable TeX/LaTeX engine. Tectonic is forked from the XeTeX extension to the classic "Web2C" implementation of TeX and uses the TeXLive distribution of support files.

MIT Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 39d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 146 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (42 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
177.8K
Dependents
146
Releases
48
Size
2.2MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

3.0K downloads in the last 30 days (100/day), up 23% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

146 crates depend on tectonic. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, tectonic hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

42 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Large crate size

2.2MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include vesti, texcore, mdbook-latex, bard, math_utils_lib. When high-quality crates choose tectonic, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 16/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
91/day avg+2%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.15.0
40%
v0.12.0
27%
v0.14.1
24%
v0.14.0
5%
v0.13.1
5%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["geturl-reqwest", "serialization"]

profilegeturl-curlserialization*geturl-reqwest*external-harfbuzznative-tls-vendored

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
42
direct dependencies
Dependents
146
crates depend on tectonic

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