Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
matklad: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate matklad can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. matklad on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerAlex Kladov (crates.io matklad) owns 3 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 8,265,759 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #43 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is autocfg at 3,840,273 a day with 82 crates depending on it. 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| autocfg Pulled in | 3,840,273 | 82 | -7% | 5mo | #26 |
| once_cell Widely used | 3,785,180 | 8,656 | -3% | 7mo | #27 |
| id-arena Pulled in | 640,306 | 65 | -17% | 9mo | #703 |
Mostly in: Memory management (2), Rust patterns (2), Build Utils (1), 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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