In the early days of Rust 1.0 the `Error` trait was rather cubersome (error messages needed a static lifetime). That is what caused people to reach for crates l

In the early days of Rust 1.0 the `Error` trait was rather cubersome (error messages needed a static lifetime). That is what caused people to reach for crates like quick-error and error-chain. But then the `Error` trait got extended and the old methods (description and cause) got deprecated and replaced with default implementations. It is much nicer now :-)