astral-sh/ruff vs kitao/pyxel
astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than pyxel. ruff rates Healthy overall while pyxel rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while pyxel last saw a commit 1 month ago with 1+ active contributor. ruff is MIT-licensed while pyxel is Other-licensed. 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
kitao/pyxel →
Solo project — review before adopting
non-standard license (Other); single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)
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.
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | pyxel | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 48,249 | 17,447 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | Other |
| Open issues | 2,036 | 3 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 74% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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