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astral-sh/ruff vs rust-lang/rls

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than rls. ruff rates Healthy overall while rls rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while rls last saw a commit 3 years ago with 28+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while rls 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/rls

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 4y ago

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.

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • 28+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
  • 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

ruffrls
Stars48,2493,498
Last committoday3y ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues2,036293
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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