tendril
v0.5.0 GrowingCompact buffer/string type for zero-copy parsing
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 77d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (2.4K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
4.5M downloads in the last 30 days (150.7K/day), up 51% from the previous period.
2.4K crates depend on tendril. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 117 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 10+ years old, tendril hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 44KB, tendril is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include markup5ever, scraper, ammonia, markup5ever_rcdom, html2text. When high-quality crates choose tendril, it's a strong quality signal.
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