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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Value formatting crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to allow an application to format values for display to a user, potentially adapting the display to various languages and regions.” Below are the 12 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, itoa leads Value formatting with 4,278,839 real downloads a day (established and steady). 1 of the 12 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.
12 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| itoaEstablished | 4,278,839 | 791 | 7mo | -5% | 1.5B | |
| zmijPulled in | 3,408,700 | 96 | 3mo | -1% | 579M | |
| ryuEstablished | 3,105,583 | 390 | 8mo | -8% | 1.3B | |
| timeWidely used | 2,434,189 | 6,747 | 3mo | -4% | 1B | |
| whoamiEstablished | 872,045 | 481 | 2mo | +8% | 251M | |
| dtoaPulled in | 496,627 | 48 | 10mo | +2% | 178M | |
| lexical-utilPulled in | 374,830 | 5 | 13mo | -8% | 141M | |
| dtoa-shortPulled in | 354,453 | 1 | 2.4y | +12% | 90.1M | |
| lexical-corePulled in | 351,327 | 72 | 13mo | +1% | 166M | |
| lexical-write-floatPulled in | 310,656 | 3 | 13mo | -2% | 124M | |
| lexical-write-integerPulled in | 310,437 | 3 | 13mo | -1% | 124M | |
| InflectorEstablished | 222,363 | 366 | 7.8y | +2% | 123M |
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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