actix/actix-web vs rwf2/rocket
actix/actix-web shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, actix-web shows healthier maintenance signals than rocket. actix-web rates Healthy overall while rocket rates Mixed. actix-web was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while rocket last saw a commit 8 months ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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actix/actix-web
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
rwf2/rocket
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| actix-web | rocket | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,789 | 25,734 |
| Last commit | 26d ago | 8mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 194 | 80 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 39% | 82% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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