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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Unix APIs crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Bindings to Unix-specific APIs.” Below are the 5 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, rustix leads Unix APIs with 3,390,892 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 2 of the 5 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 2.4% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
5 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustixWidely used | 3,390,892 | 1,684 | 38d | +1% | 1.3B | |
| nixWidely used | 2,388,393 | 3,910 | 5mo | -3% | 904M | |
| zbusEstablished | 354,153 | 647 | 1d | +20% | 101M | |
| zbus_namesPulled in | 346,053 | 5 | 8d | +22% | 96.7M | |
| procfsEstablished | 216,195 | 252 | 14mo | +6% | 89.1M |
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
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