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Rust crates · category · data Oct 27, 2026
Compilers crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Compiler implementations, including interpreters and transpilers.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, codespan-reporting leads Compilers with 348,335 real downloads a day (established and gaining). 0 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. The median crate here got 7% of its Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026 downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
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| codespan-reportingEstablished | 348,335 | 252 | 12mo | +15% | 158M | |
| oxc_parserEstablished | 40,212 | 225 | 0d | +61% | 9.7M | |
| boa_engineEstablished | 19,559 | 102 | 2mo | -18% | 5.8M | |
| typstEstablished | 17,880 | 179 | 3mo | +40% | 3.6M | |
| oxcEstablished | 5,816 | 102 | 0d | +16% | 1.8M | |
| apollo-compilerPulled in | 3,076 | 25 | 6d | +106% | 1M |
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