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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Rust patterns crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Shared solutions for particular situations specific to programming in Rust.” Below are the 18 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, thiserror leads Rust patterns with 5,048,791 real downloads a day (foundational and steady). 10 of the 18 have 1,000+ dependents; 2 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.
18 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thiserrorFoundational | 5,048,791 | 75,923 | 31d | +2% | 1.7B | |
| itertoolsWidely used | 4,545,996 | 8,656 | 4mo | +1% | 1.7B | |
| once_cellWidely used | 3,785,180 | 8,656 | 7mo | -1% | 1.4B | |
| pin-project-liteWidely used | 3,270,978 | 1,708 | 8mo | -2% | 1.2B | |
| zerocopyEstablished | 3,245,504 | 878 | 11d | -5% | 1B | |
| anyhowFoundational | 2,875,638 | 52,113 | 3mo | -2% | 1.1B | |
| scopeguardEstablished | 2,724,718 | 567 | 3.3y | -1% | 1.1B | |
| zerovec-derivePulled in | 2,561,390 | 6 | 2d | +6% | 678M | |
| zerovecPulled in | 2,516,803 | 60 | 2d | +5% | 684M | |
| lazy_staticFoundational | 2,449,997 | 10,953 | 23d | +4% | 1.1B | |
| num-convPulled in | 2,114,479 | 4 | 5mo | -3% | 645M | |
| bumpaloEstablished | 1,968,716 | 546 | 5mo | -1% | 667M | |
| powerfmtPulled in | 1,889,786 | 5 | 19d | +2% | 629M | |
| derive_moreWidely used | 1,604,594 | 3,690 | 10mo | -3% | 55M | |
| pin-project-internalPulled in | 1,484,850 | 1 | 5mo | -6% | 644M | |
| pin-projectWidely used | 1,484,314 | 1,406 | 5mo | -6% | 644M | |
| static_assertionsWidely used | 1,442,265 | 1,688 | 7.0y | +2% | 562M | |
| ordered-floatWidely used | 1,379,318 | 1,143 | 2mo | +1% | 505M |
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