rust-lang/cargo
The Rust package manager
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #90 among Backend repositories tracked this week, and #90 over the last 30 days; #218 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 8%).
The project lists 414 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #31 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Manages Rust project dependencies, compiles code, and handles package publishing and versioning.
- Integrates tightly with Rust tooling to provide seamless dependency resolution and build automation.
- Use for automating Rust project builds and managing external libraries efficiently.
- Use for creating and publishing Rust packages to the official crates.io registry.
- Use for extending Rust's build system with custom subcommands without modifying Cargo itself.
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 GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Cargo downloads your Rust project’s dependencies and compiles your project.
To start using Cargo, learn more at The Cargo Book.
To start developing Cargo itself, read the Cargo Contributor Guide.
The Cargo binary distributed through with Rust is maintained by the Cargo team for use by the wider ecosystem. For all other uses of this crate (as a binary or library) this is maintained by the Cargo team, primarily for use by Cargo and not intended for external use (except as a transitive dependency). This crate may make major changes to its APIs.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+344 stars over 87 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +8 on Jul 14.
Forks
3.1K+81
Open issues
1.7K+30
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 4, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 14.5K | +7.1K | 59 | 11 days ago |
| vectorize-io/hindsight | 52.4K | +2.9K | 75 | today |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 92.6K | +2.7K | 75 | 30 days ago |
| anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins | 31.2K | +2.6K | 75 | — |
| 666ghj/MiroFish | 80.7K | +1.9K | 23 | 226 days ago |
| rust-lang/cargo | 15.6K | +0 | 75 | — |
| Category median | 52.4K | +2.7K | 75 | — |
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