It's used at build time in 21 crates (5 directly).

Number of dependers protobuf-build version Downloads/month
1 0.15.1 9.1K
13 0.14.1 7.7K
0 0.14.0 9.2K
7 0.12.3 430
Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) protobuf-build version
16K 3 raft-proto build ^0.14
600 3 surrealdb-tikv-client-proto build ^0.14
mmdb-grpc build ^0.14
3 tikv-client-proto build ^0.12
nova-api build ^0.15