Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
BurntSushi: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate BurntSushi can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. BurntSushi on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerAndrew Gallant (crates.io BurntSushi) owns 20 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 34,213,373 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #12 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is memchr at 4,765,439 a day with 2,274 crates depending on it. 7 shipped a release in the last 90 days; 2 are gaining on the field and 1 losing ground.
Their crates, by real downloads
| Crate | Real downloads a day | Dependents | Trend vs field | Last release | crates.io rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| memchr Widely used | 4,765,439 | 2,274 | -11% | 4mo | #17 |
| regex-syntax Established | 3,734,898 | 375 | -7% | 5mo | #18 |
| regex-automata Established | 3,575,277 | 210 | -5% | 3mo | #29 |
| regex Foundational | 3,355,026 | 24,288 | -8% | 3mo | #33 |
| aho-corasick Established | 3,331,047 | 655 | +1% | 3mo | #35 |
| byteorder Widely used | 2,056,746 | 4,780 | -3% | 3.0y | #109 |
| walkdir Widely used | 1,935,670 | 7,101 | +1% | 2.6y | #170 |
| same-file Established | 1,902,047 | 290 | +2% | 6.8y | #179 |
| bstr Established | 1,252,630 | 676 | +2% | 2mo | #300 |
| winapi-util Pulled in | 1,250,242 | 67 | +1% | 14mo | #308 |
| termcolor Established | 992,160 | 658 | -9% | 2.8y | #262 |
| jiff Widely used | 981,794 | 1,531 | +34% | 18d | #515 |
| ucd-trie Pulled in | 829,254 | 25 | +4% | 2.1y | #385 |
| regex-lite Established | 732,789 | 834 | +0% | 9mo | #562 |
| csv-core Pulled in | 687,418 | 32 | -5% | 12mo | #469 |
| globset Widely used | 685,147 | 1,808 | +8% | 3mo | #474 |
| csv Widely used | 677,936 | 3,501 | -4% | 12mo | #462 |
| jiff-static Pulled in | 646,337 | 1 | +27% | 18d | #719 |
| ignore Widely used | 503,016 | 2,733 | +9% | 3mo | #583 |
| snap Established | 318,500 | 318 | -2% | 3mo | #791 |
Mostly in: Text processing (4), Encoding (4), No standard library (3), Date and time (2), Parser implementations (2).
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How we count
Owners: crates.io owners API (users only; teams are not listed), fetched Oct 24, 2026. Real downloads a day = the median day with no release that day or the day before, per crate, summed. Trend = last 30 days against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate. Method: our crates.io study.
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