A deep dive into 200,650 Rust crates shows a brewing maintenance problem: 45% are inactive, and over half of new crates never see a second update - a wild jump from just 1.4% in 2015.
Zoom in on the top 1,000 crates, and it gets messier. 249 dependencies have been abandoned, and 158 are stuck on older major versions, lagging hard - even with wide adoption.
