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yansi

v1.0.1 Growing

A dead simple ANSI terminal color painting library.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.63
Command-line interface #ansi#terminal#color#format#paint

Quick Verdict

  • Not updated for 2+ years
  • Stable API (1.x for 8+ years)
  • Massive adoption (3.6K crates depend on it)
  • Tiny footprint (75KB, 1 deps)
  • Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
161.7M
Dependents
3.6K
Releases
17
Size
75KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

13.4M downloads in the last 30 days (446.3K/day), up 21% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

3.6K crates depend on yansi. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

yansi has only 1 owner despite 3.6K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.

Stable for 8+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 8 years with 17 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 1 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pretty_assertions, proc-macro2-diagnostics, pulldown-cmark-to-cmark, pear, rocket. When high-quality crates choose yansi, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 20/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days
365K/day avg+54%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v1.0.1
52%
v0.5.1
43%
v0.5.0
3%
v1.0.0-rc.1
2%
v0.4.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std"]

std*alloc_nightlyhyperlinkdetect-envdetect-tty

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
1
direct dependencies
Dependents
3.6K
crates depend on yansi

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