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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Operating systems crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Bindings to operating system-specific APIs.” 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, getrandom leads Operating systems with 7,623,482 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 3 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 1.1% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| getrandomWidely used | 7,623,482 | 5,558 | 4mo | +1% | 2.4B | |
| libcFoundational | 4,964,021 | 17,338 | 8d | -6% | 1.8B | |
| errnoEstablished | 2,791,762 | 259 | 13mo | +4% | 964M | |
| zeroizeWidely used | 2,397,082 | 5,204 | 18d | +0% | 802M | |
| iana-time-zoneEstablished | 2,009,518 | 109 | 9mo | +0% | 758M | |
| hermit-abiPulled in | 1,146,485 | 10 | 54d | -5% | 593M |
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