Rusty Object Notation by ron-rs

Rusty Object Notation

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Verdict 62/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 1 months ago

Self-host Rusty Object Notation on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
62 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
3.9k
144 forks

About Rusty Object Notation

From the project's README at github.com/ron-rs/ron. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://github.com/ron-rs/ron) [](https://crates.io/crates/ron) [](https://docs.rs/ron)

[](https://github.com/ron-rs/ron/actions/workflows/ci.yaml) [](https://ron-rs.github.io/ron/coverage/) [](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:ron)

RON is a simple readable data serialization format that looks similar to Rust syntax. It's designed to support all of Serde's data model, so structs, enums, tuples, arrays, generic maps, and primitive values. Example

```ron GameConfig( // optional struct name windowsize: (800, 600), windowtitle: "PAC-MAN", fullscreen: false,

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
50
maturity
80
community
89
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
30

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 3.9k github.com/ron-rs/ron
GitHub forks 144 github.com/ron-rs/ron
CRATES downloads (last month) 20565k ron

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age11.1 yearssince Apr 2015
Last commit4 days agoMay 3, 2026
Releases shipped10last: 1 months ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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