tonic
v0.14.6 GrowingA gRPC over HTTP/2 implementation focused on high performance, interoperability, and flexibility.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 68d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (55.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- !Heavy dependency tree (32 direct deps)
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Deep Insights
25.6M downloads in the last 30 days (853.6K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
55.3K crates depend on tonic — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 195 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 7+ years old, tonic hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
32 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.
Notable dependents include opentelemetry-proto, opentelemetry-otlp, tonic-prost, tonic-health, tonic-reflection. When high-quality crates choose tonic, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["router", "transport", "codegen"]
