forward_ref is used at run time in 568 crates (of which 13 optionally). It is a direct run-time dependency in 8 crates. It's used only as a dev dependency in 20 crates.

Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) forward_ref version
2.3K 28 secret-cosmwasm-std ^1
140 decmathlib-rs ^1.0.0
100 vortex-common ^1
3 inari ^1.0.0
1 vax-floating ^1.0.0
palindromeda ^1.0.0
8 rhaki-cw-plus ^1.0.0
inari_wasm ^1.0.0