Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
sunfishcode: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate sunfishcode can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. sunfishcode on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerDan Gohman (crates.io sunfishcode) owns 7 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 14,100,347 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #23 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is rustix at 3,390,892 a day with 1,684 crates depending on it. 1 shipped a release in the last 90 days; 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustix Widely used | 3,390,892 | 1,684 | +1% | 38d | #34 |
| linux-raw-sys Pulled in | 3,305,436 | 39 | -3% | 10mo | #42 |
| errno Established | 2,791,762 | 259 | +2% | 13mo | #94 |
| wasi Pulled in | 2,177,567 | 58 | -11% | 13mo | #124 |
| target-lexicon Established | 1,275,273 | 245 | -8% | 8mo | #329 |
| is-terminal Established | 740,828 | 258 | -6% | 12mo | #360 |
| io-lifetimes Pulled in | 418,589 | 26 | +30% | 15mo | #567 |
Mostly in: No standard library (3), Operating systems (2), Unix APIs (1), Date and time (1), Network programming (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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