When I install some Linux app from, let’s say GitHub, I can feel how long without updates means the project is not maintained.
For example last commit being 5 years ago for GTK app is a long time and this is considered an abandoned repo. For super simple things like cowsay it’s not that simple but still I can feel it.
How is that with crates with Rust? I see a lot of parsers or web libraries that are not updated for a year, two years, three years… How old is too old?
Also, many of them have a version 0.x.x, so can I even consider them stable?
You can always reach out to the maintainers to see. Some of them might have behind the scenes work going on, others might consider the crate complete if it’s already hit 1.0.0.
I don’t think you’ll find a one size fits all answer here, it depends the crate.