astral-sh/ruff vs thealgorithms/rust
astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than rust. ruff rates Healthy overall while rust rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while rust last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ 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 →
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
thealgorithms/rust →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | rust | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 48,249 | 25,829 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 2,036 | 7 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 8 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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