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burntsushi/ripgrep vs ron-rs/ron

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, ripgrep and ron both show healthy maintenance signals. ripgrep last saw a commit 1 month ago with 31+ active contributors, while ron was committed to 2 weeks ago with 21+ active contributors. ripgrep is Unlicense-licensed while ron 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

ron-rs/ron

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 2 cyclic import chains detected

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 21+ active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

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

ripgrepron
Stars68,3364,003
Last commit1mo ago18d ago
LicenseUnlicenseApache-2.0
Open issues19953
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage31%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeAA
Cycles02
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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