error-chaincrates.io

Verdict

Looks abandoned

error-chain appears abandoned — its repository has been archived, no commits for over 6 years. 11 of 62 open issues have had no reply. Plan a migration rather than waiting for a fix.

health 10/100

Why this verdict?

abandoned — No commits for over 365 days with unanswered issues piling up — or the registry marks it deprecated, or the repository is archived.

repository archived

Judged 25 days ago from signal heuristics. How each verdict is decided

latest 0.12.4
last known licence MIT/Apache-2.0
stars 726
assessment attempted 25 days ago
GitHub evidence observed 25 days ago
registry checked 28 days ago
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Signals · last 16 checks

Commits 90d

Open issues

Unanswered

Contributors

What the project says about itself

Open milestones — 1.0 13/23 done. Source: the repository's milestones.
OpenSSF Scorecard — 2.9 / 10 on 2026-08-24. Source: OpenSSF, via deps.dev. A third party's view of security practice, not part of the health score.

Third-party facts checked 25 days ago; registry facts on every crawl.

State history 1

When	Change
2026-10-21	first verdict: abandoned

Where to go instead 1

anyhow A few hours

Deprecated; anyhow covers the same application-error case

Delete the `error_chain!` macro block and return `anyhow::Result<T>`, adding context with `.context()`.

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