tonic-build
v0.14.5 GrowingCodegen module of `tonic` gRPC implementation.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 36d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (13.2K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
12.0M downloads in the last 30 days (398.9K/day), up 16% from the previous period.
13.2K crates depend on tonic-build — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 186 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, tonic-build hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 15KB, tonic-build is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include tonic-prost-build, protoc-gen-tonic, google-cloud-googleapis, etcd-client, gcp-bigquery-client. When high-quality crates choose tonic-build, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["transport"]
