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color-backtrace

v0.7.2 Growing

Colorful panic backtraces

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.70
#color#pretty#stacktrace#backtrace#colour

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • βœ“Massive adoption (1.0K crates depend on it)
  • βœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
3.4M
Dependents
1.0K
Releases
19
Size
20KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

136.0K downloads in the last 30 days (4.5K/day), up 10% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.0K crates depend on color-backtrace. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

color-backtrace has only 1 owner despite 1.0K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern β€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, color-backtrace hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 20KB, color-backtrace is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include vsdbsled, sled, notify-rust, openidconnect, rumqttc. When high-quality crates choose color-backtrace, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
4K/day avg+29%
02K4K6K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.0
32%
v0.5.1
24%
v0.6.1
20%
v0.7.2
12%
v0.7.0
12%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["use-backtrace-crate"]

resolve-modulesuse-btparse-crateuse-backtrace-crate*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.0K
crates depend on color-backtrace

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