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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Build Utils crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Utilities for build scripts and other build time steps.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, cc leads Build Utils with 3,852,250 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 1 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 1 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ccWidely used | 3,852,250 | 4,294 | 1d | -2% | 1.4B | |
| autocfgPulled in | 3,840,273 | 82 | 5mo | -5% | 1.5B | |
| find-msvc-toolsPulled in | 2,852,929 | 15 | 5d | +12% | 591M | |
| rustversionEstablished | 2,686,635 | 652 | 4mo | -1% | 879M | |
| cfg_aliasesEstablished | 2,163,249 | 283 | 3mo | +4% | 602M | |
| vcpkgEstablished | 1,467,123 | 135 | 5.3y | +11% | 54M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io