error-chain
v0.12.4 GrowingYet another error boilerplate library.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 5+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (7.8K crates depend on it)
- ✓Tiny footprint (29KB, 2 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
2.3M downloads in the last 30 days (78.1K/day), up 23% from the previous period.
7.8K crates depend on error-chain. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
Despite being 9+ years old, error-chain hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Only 2 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.
At 29KB, error-chain is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include skeptic, xdr-codec, xdrgen, metadeps, xml-rpc. When high-quality crates choose error-chain, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["backtrace", "example_generated"]
