astral-sh/ruff vs ilya-zlobintsev/lact
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, ruff and lact both show healthy maintenance signals. ruff was committed to 1 week ago with 22+ active contributors, while lact last saw a commit 1 month ago with 12+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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astral-sh/ruff
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓22+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% 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
ilya-zlobintsev/lact
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
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓MIT 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | lact | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 49,540 | 5,421 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 2,174 | 91 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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