Crates / arrow-cast
Rust crate · real downloads · data Oct 24, 2026
arrow-cast downloads, and should you depend on it?
Cast kernel and utilities for Apache Arrow crates.io · docs.rs · repository
Owned on crates.io by nevi-me, kou, kszucs, xhochy, alamb, tustvold and 1 more · is it still maintained?
Feature flags + Cargo.toml picker
Few direct dependents and steady.
arrow-cast: only 94 crates name it directly; most of its downloads come in through arrow; small bumps on release days (1.29x the baseline).
How this verdict is decided (4 rules)
- Usage: crates.io reverse dependencies (crates that list it as a dependency): 10,000+ = foundational, 1,000+ = widely used, 100+ = established, under 100 = few direct dependents.
- Direction: the median quiet day in the last 30 days of the window against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate (the whole field moved +39% from late summer to October, so a raw trend says nothing). 10%+ ahead of the field = gaining; 10%+ behind = losing ground; otherwise steady. Steady with no release in 2+ years = quiet for years.
- Release spikes: the median release-window day against the quiet-day baseline: under 1.15x = no spike, 1.15x to 1.3x = small bumps, 1.3x or more = jumps on release days.
- Release recency: days since the newest version that was not yanked, from crates.io publish times.
release window (release day + next day)quiet dayquiet-day median · download the 89 days as CSV
The numbers in one paragrapharrow-cast got 27,460,054 crates.io downloads from Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. 11% of them landed within 2 days of one of its 4 releases. On the other 81 quiet days it got a median of 299,519 a day, about 2,096,633 a week. Capping release days at that baseline leaves 26,876,053 release-adjusted downloads for the window.
What this means if you're choosing a dependency
- You rarely add this one yourself. Only 94 crates name it directly; its downloads arrive through arrow.
- Actively released. 59.3.1 shipped 9 days ago (Oct 15, 2026).
- Fit check: license Apache-2.0, edition 2024, needs Rust 1.85 or newer (from the latest version's manifest).
- Compare it by the baseline, not the raw count. 11% of its 27,460,054 downloads in the window landed within 2 days of a release; the steady number is 299,519 a day.
Its place in the dependency graph
Built on arrow-cast
1 of the 1000 crates we track depend on it directly (biggest first).
arrow-cast builds on
Tracked crates its latest version (59.3.1) depends on (optional ones marked).
What the chart says
- Weekend quiet days ran at 49% of weekday quiet days (167,668 vs 343,541). A dip that deep is the signature of work-week CI pipelines and developers building on weekdays.
- Biggest day: 600,303 on Oct 22, 2026, a quiet day with no release nearby.
Every number
| All-time downloads | 106,354,093 (rank #892 on crates.io by all-time downloads) |
| Downloads in the window | 27,460,054 (Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, 89 days) |
| Within 2 days of a release | 2,929,632 (10.7%) |
| Quiet-day median (baseline) | 299,519 a day; weekdays 343,541, weekends 167,668 |
| Release-adjusted downloads | 26,876,053 (release-window days capped at the baseline) |
| Baseline rank | #867 of the 1000 crates we track |
| Quiet-day trend | +46% raw, +5% against the median tracked crate (+39%) |
| Releases in the window | 4 |
| Versions published, ever | 65 |
| Latest version | 59.3.1, published Oct 15, 2026 (license Apache-2.0, edition 2024, MSRV 1.85) |
| First published | Nov 14, 2022 |
| Reverse dependencies | 94 |
Releases in the window
Each one opens a 2-day release window on the chart.
| Version | Published | Downloads that version got (lifetime) |
|---|---|---|
| 59.3.1 | Oct 15, 2026 | 136,115 |
| 60.0.0 | Sep 15, 2026 | 778,896 |
| 59.3.0 | Sep 1, 2026 | 1,858,203 |
| 59.2.0 | Aug 6, 2026 | 991,660 |
How we compute this
crates.io counts every download, including CI runners, mirrors and bots that fetch each new version, so raw counts run high (why, in The Manual). We split the last 89 days into release windows (the day a version of arrow-cast was published, plus the next day) and quiet days, and use the median quiet day as the baseline: an upper bound on steady use, never a head count. The method and data come from our study of 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, featured in This Week in Rust #674; check any crate live with the real-downloads checker.
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Sources
- Daily downloads: crates.io API, /crates/arrow-cast/downloads (last 90 days, all versions), fetched Oct 24, 2026.
- Versions and publish times: crates.io API, /crates/arrow-cast/versions, same fetch.
- Reverse dependencies: crates.io reverse dependencies, same fetch. Dependency edges between tracked crates: each crate's default version, crates.io API.
- Fetched politely (one request every 2 seconds, identified User-Agent) per the crates.io data access policy. Data is crates.io's; the release-window split, baseline and verdict rules are ours, CC BY 4.0.
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