Rust: A tale of broken badges and 23,000 features

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Around mid-October of 2023 the crates.io team was notified by one of our users that a shields.io badge for their crate stopped working. The issue reporter was kind enough to already debug the problem and figured out that the API request that shields.io sends to crates.io was most likely the problem. Here is a quote from the original issue:

This crate makes heavy use of feature flags which bloat the response payload of the API.

Apparently the API response for this specific crate had broken the 20 MB mark and shields.io wasn't particularly happy with this. Interestingly, this crate only had 9 versions published at this point in time. But how do you get to 20 MB with only 9 published versions?

As the quote above already mentions, this crate is using features… a lot of features… almost 23,000! 😱

What crate needs that many features? W...

Get the full details here: A tale of broken badges and 23,000 features | Rust Blog