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leocavalcante/result
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Result provides an alternative error handling mechanism, avoiding throwing exceptions and a better data flow control.

v0.1.0(5y ago)878[1 issues](https://github.com/leocavalcante/result/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/leocavalcante/result/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=7.4

Since Feb 17Pushed 1y agoCompare

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Result
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[](#result)

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🎁 Result provides an alternative error handling mechanism, avoiding throwing exceptions or using nulls.

> Heavily inspired by [Rust's Result](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/).

Why avoid nulls?
----------------

[](#why-avoid-nulls)

TODO: Talk about null-safety.

Why avoid exceptions?
---------------------

[](#why-avoid-exceptions)

TODO: Talk about resilience.

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance26

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1961d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/183722?v=4)[Leo Cavalcante](/maintainers/leocavalcante)[@leocavalcante](https://github.com/leocavalcante)

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Top Contributors

[![leocavalcante](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/183722?v=4)](https://github.com/leocavalcante "leocavalcante (17 commits)")

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Tags

error-handlinghacktoberfestmonadnull-safetyphpresult

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPsalm

Type Coverage Yes

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