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burntsushi/ripgrep vs nukesor/pueue

burntsushi/ripgrep shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, ripgrep shows healthier maintenance signals than pueue. ripgrep rates Healthy overall while pueue rates Mixed. ripgrep last saw a commit 1 month ago with 31+ active contributors, while pueue last saw a commit 4 months ago with 5+ active contributors. ripgrep is Unlicense-licensed while pueue is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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burntsushi/ripgrep

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 6w ago
  • 31+ active contributors
  • Unlicense 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

nukesor/pueue

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 87% of recent commits
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 5 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ripgreppueue
Stars68,3366,196
Last commit1mo ago4mo ago
LicenseUnlicenseApache-2.0
Open issues19917
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage31%86%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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