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termios

v0.3.3 Growing

Safe bindings for the termios library.

MIT
#terminal#posix#termios#tty

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 5+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (2.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (17KB, 1 deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

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Downloads
29.1M
Dependents
2.4K
Releases
13
Size
17KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

2.8M downloads in the last 30 days (92.0K/day), up 11% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

2.4K crates depend on termios. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

termios has only 1 owner despite 2.4K 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 11+ years old, termios hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 1 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Compact crate

At 17KB, termios is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include rustyline, termwiz, serial-unix, wasmer-wasix, quest. When high-quality crates choose termios, 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 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
77K/day avg+59%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.3
58%
v0.2.2
31%
v0.3.1
6%
v0.3.2
5%
v0.3.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
1
direct dependencies
Dependents
2.4K
crates depend on termios

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