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miette

v7.6.0 Growing

Fancy diagnostic reporting library and protocol for us mere mortals who aren't compiler hackers.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.70.0

Quick Verdict

  • βœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • βœ“Stable API (7.x for 4+ years)
  • βœ“Massive adoption (26.9K crates depend on it)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (25 direct deps)
  • βœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
60.7M
Dependents
26.9K
Releases
67
Size
114KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

4.6M downloads in the last 30 days (154.8K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Foundational crate

26.9K crates depend on miette β€” it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

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Single maintainer risk

miette has only 1 owner despite 26.9K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern β€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Stable for 4+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 4 years with 67 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Heavy dependency tree

25 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pest, prost-reflect, jsonptr, backtrace-ext, lambda_runtime. When high-quality crates choose miette, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 8/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 18/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads Β· last 90 days
135K/day avg-43%
050K100K150K200K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v7.6.0
52%
v5.10.0
22%
v7.2.0
17%
v7.5.0
6%
v7.4.0
3%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["derive"]

fancyderive*fancy-basefancy-no-syscallfancy-no-backtracesyntect-highlighterno-format-args-capture

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
25
direct dependencies
Dependents
26.9K
crates depend on miette