facet-rs/facet
Rust reflection, serialization, deserialization, pretty printing, etc. — the last proc macro you should need
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
Loading star history...
Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 74 days ago, with 90 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 69% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides Rust reflection capabilities including serialization, deserialization, and pretty printing via a proc macro.
- Enables detailed type introspection with a SHAPE constant for layout, fields, and attributes, simplifying complex Rust type manipulations.
- Use for building custom serializers and deserializers supporting multiple data formats like JSON, TOML, and YAML.
- Use for developing rich debugging tools or CLI parsers that require runtime type information and reflection.
- Use for generating code or integrating Rust types with templating engines and external systems requiring type metadata.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
facet provides reflection for Rust: it gives types a
SHAPEassociated const with details on the layout, fields, doc comments, attributes, etc.It can be used for many things, from (de)serialization to pretty-printing, rich debuggers, CLI parsing, reflection in templating engines, code generation, etc.
See https://facet.rs for details.
Various crates live under the https://github.com/facet-rs umbrella, and their repositories are kept somewhat-consistent through facet-dev.
Crates are in various states of progress, buyer beware!
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
133+6
Open issues
159+13
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 187.8K | +2.9K | 15 | — |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 47.0K | +2.3K | 16 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 98.2K | +2.3K | 64 | 14 days ago |
| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| facet-rs/facet | 2.6K | — | 61 | 74 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
Discover Repositories
Search across tracked repositories by name or description