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astral-sh/ruff vs rust-lang/book

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than book. ruff rates Healthy overall while book rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while book last saw a commit 2 months ago with 11+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while book is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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astral-sh/ruff

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

rust-lang/book

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ruffbook
Stars48,24917,729
Last committoday2mo ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues2,036425
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%2%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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