astral-sh/ruff vs iii-hq/iii
astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than iii. ruff rates Healthy overall while iii rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while iii last saw a commit 1 month ago with 6+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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astral-sh/ruff →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
iii-hq/iii →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | iii | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 48,249 | 15,501 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 2,036 | 35 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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