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color-eyre

v0.6.5 Growing

An error report handler for panics and eyre::Reports for colorful, consistent, and well formatted error reports for all kinds of errors.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.65.0

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (18.7K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
45.9M
Dependents
18.7K
Releases
33
Size
636KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

3.4M downloads in the last 30 days (113.3K/day), up 32% from the previous period.

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Foundational crate

18.7K crates depend on color-eyre โ€” it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, color-eyre hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include ratatui, ed25519-zebra, cargo-nextest, abscissa_core, interprocess. When high-quality crates choose color-eyre, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 8/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
88K/day avg+70%
050K100K150K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.6.5
34%
v0.6.3
32%
v0.6.2
26%
v0.6.1
5%
v0.5.11
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["track-caller", "capture-spantrace"]

issue-urltrack-caller*capture-spantrace*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
14
direct dependencies
Dependents
18.7K
crates depend on color-eyre