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snafu

v0.9.0 Growing

An ergonomic error handling library

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.65
Rust patternsNo standard library #library#error#no_std#ergonomic

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 25d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (8.7K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
81.4M
Dependents
8.7K
Releases
52
Size
77KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

4.9M downloads in the last 30 days (163.4K/day), up 4% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

8.7K crates depend on snafu. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

snafu has only 1 owner despite 8.7K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, snafu hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include octocrab, rasn, influxdb-line-protocol, vrl, json-subscriber. When high-quality crates choose snafu, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 18/25

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
147K/day avg+28%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.5
43%
v0.8.5
24%
v0.8.6
13%
v0.8.9
10%
v0.6.10
10%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["std", "rust_1_81"]

std*allocguidefuturesrust_1_81*unstable-try-traitunstable-provider-apiinternal-dev-dependenciesbacktraces-impl-backtrace-crate

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
8.7K
crates depend on snafu

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