xz2
v0.1.7 GrowingRust bindings to liblzma providing Read/Write streams as well as low-level in-memory encoding/decoding.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 3+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (4.5K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
3.2M downloads in the last 30 days (107.5K/day), up 33% from the previous period.
4.5K crates depend on xz2. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 215 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 10+ years old, xz2 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 23KB, xz2 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include blazesym, syd, cargo-xwin, python-pkginfo, cargo-deb. When high-quality crates choose xz2, it's a strong quality signal.
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