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Crate Census
Original studies of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates, each with a short answer, CSV and an embeddable chart.
Issue 2Crate Census #2: the top Rust crates that have gone quiet182 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates have not shipped a release in over 2 years (109 in over 3), yet together they still get about 146,767,724 real downloads a day. The most depended-on is hex (14,719 dependents, ...Issue 1Crate Census #1: how much of crates.io's top 1000 is release-day traffic?Across the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates (Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026), the median crate that shipped a release got 3.4% of its downloads within 2 days of a release. 625 shipped nothing in the window, so every downlo...
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