astral-sh/ruff vs rust-lang/rust-clippy
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, ruff and rust-clippy both show healthy maintenance signals. ruff was committed to 5 days ago with 22+ active contributors, while rust-clippy was committed to 2 weeks ago with 37+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while rust-clippy is Apache-2.0-licensed. 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
rust-lang/rust-clippy
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.
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓37+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 12% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 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 | rust-clippy | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 49,540 | 13,479 |
| Last commit | 5d ago | 15d ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 2,174 | 2,878 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | B | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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