Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
hawkw: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate hawkw can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. hawkw on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerEliza Weisman (crates.io hawkw) owns 12 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 17,579,615 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #21 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is tracing-core at 2,617,281 a day with 386 crates depending on it. 1 shipped a release in the last 90 days; 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tracing-core Established | 2,617,281 | 386 | +0% | 10mo | #92 |
| tracing Foundational | 2,611,879 | 46,220 | +1% | 10mo | #93 |
| tracing-attributes Pulled in | 2,272,684 | 48 | +1% | 11mo | #122 |
| tracing-subscriber Foundational | 1,919,774 | 20,192 | -3% | 7mo | #180 |
| sharded-slab Pulled in | 1,733,301 | 32 | -2% | 3.1y | #222 |
| tracing-log Established | 1,664,731 | 476 | -6% | 3.0y | #223 |
| matchers Pulled in | 1,581,741 | 3 | -7% | 2.3y | #264 |
| valuable Pulled in | 933,894 | 73 | -10% | 21mo | #400 |
| tracing-serde Pulled in | 920,901 | 34 | -1% | 23mo | #417 |
| tracing-opentelemetry Widely used | 621,693 | 1,106 | +1% | 31d | #528 |
| tracing-appender Widely used | 457,805 | 1,377 | +1% | 6mo | #776 |
| tracing-futures Established | 243,931 | 355 | +6% | 5.7y | #715 |
Mostly in: Debugging (10), Asynchronous (9), Profiling (7), Encoding (2), No standard library (1).
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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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