"Hex is used at run time in 1,155 crates (of which 77 optionally, 434 directly). It's used at build time in 4 crates (of which 1 optionally, 0 directly). It's used only as a dev dependency in 125 crates (102 directly)."
uh nice, lib.rs added a reverse-dependencies info page with cool stats uwu
https://lib.rs/crates/hex/rev