Decision Workspace
ash-flare vs hmac-circuit-breaker vs tower-resilience-fallback
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
51
ash-flare
experimentalv2.2.0
Fault-tolerant supervision trees for Rust with distributed capabilities inspired by Erlang/OTP
54
hmac-circuit-breaker
experimentalv0.3.0
HMAC-protected circuit breaker with fail-open semantics. Persists circuit state to disk and verifies integrity with HMAC-SHA256 on every reload to prevent state-file tampering from inducing self-DoS.
50
tower-resilience-fallback
experimentalv0.9.3
Fallback middleware for Tower services
Core Metrics
| ash-flare | hmac-circuit-breaker | tower-resilience-fallback | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 51 | 54 | 50 |
| Total Downloads | 231 | 112 | 299 |
| 30d Downloads | 6 | 47 | 134 |
| Dependents | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Releases | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| Last Updated | 34d ago | 28d ago | 10d ago |
| Age | 4m | 28d | 2m |
Health Breakdown
ash-flare
Maintenance
17
Quality
10
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
hmac-circuit-breaker
Maintenance
17
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
tower-resilience-fallback
Maintenance
12
Quality
14
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| ash-flare | hmac-circuit-breaker | tower-resilience-fallback | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 2.2.0 | 0.3.0 | 0.9.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 14 | 15 | 8 |
| Crate Size | 114KB | 40KB | 13KB |
| Features | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Yanked % | 62.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | 1.85 | 1.75 | 1.64.0 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •hmac-circuit-breaker leads with a health score of 54/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •tower-resilience-fallback has the most downloads (299), suggesting wider adoption.
- •hmac-circuit-breaker, tower-resilience-fallback are pre-1.0 — API may change.