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virtio-bindings

v0.2.7 Growing

Rust FFI bindings to virtio generated using bindgen.

BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
#virtio

Quick Verdict

  • βœ“Actively maintained (updated 66d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • βœ“Trusted by 166 crates
  • βœ“Team maintained (7 owners)
  • βœ“Tiny footprint (265KB, 0 deps)

Security

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Downloads
1.7M
Dependents
166
Releases
9
Size
265KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

96.7K downloads in the last 30 days (3.2K/day), up 48% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

166 crates depend on virtio-bindings. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (7 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, virtio-bindings hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Zero dependencies

virtio-bindings has no external dependencies β€” minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include virtio-queue, vhost-user-backend, fuse-backend-rs, virtiofsd, virtio-vsock. When high-quality crates choose virtio-bindings, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 12/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
2K/day avg+100%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.1.0
46%
v0.2.2
20%
v0.2.6
14%
v0.2.4
10%
v0.2.1
10%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
0
direct dependencies
Dependents
166
crates depend on virtio-bindings

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