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unsigned-varint

v0.8.0 Growing

unsigned varint encoding

MIT Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.9K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
41.0M
Dependents
1.9K
Releases
17
Size
16KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

2.2M downloads in the last 30 days (72.4K/day), up 28% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.9K crates depend on unsigned-varint. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 658 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, unsigned-varint hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, unsigned-varint is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include multihash, multiaddr, multistream-select, libp2p-core, cid. When high-quality crates choose unsigned-varint, 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 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
57K/day avg+55%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.2
31%
v0.8.0
29%
v0.7.1
20%
v0.5.1
15%
v0.3.3
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
10
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.9K
crates depend on unsigned-varint