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rust-lang-deprecated/failure

Error management observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/rust-lang-deprecated/failure · homepage · Rust · Apache-2.0 (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3264
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2314
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1416 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A deprecated Rust library for error management, providing the Fail trait and Error struct to simplify defining and handling custom error types. It has been superseded by anyhow and thiserror.

Use cases

  • manage errors in rust applications
  • define custom error types with derive macros
  • wrap multiple error sources into one error type
  • replace std::error::Error boilerplate

When to choose

  • maintaining a legacy codebase already using failure

When to avoid

  • starting a new rust project
  • you want an actively maintained error library
  • you need modern std error trait support

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

error-handling developer-tools rust deprecated error-management derive-macro

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