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burntsushi/ripgrep vs sharkdp/bat

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

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Healthy

Healthy across the board

Use as dependencyHealthy

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • ✓Last commit 3mo ago
  • ✓22+ active contributors
  • ✓Unlicense licensed
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  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present
  • ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
  • ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard

sharkdp/bat →

Healthy

Healthy across the board

Use as dependencyHealthy

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • ✓Last commit 5d ago
  • ✓22+ active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 34% of recent commits)
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  • ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ripgrepbat
Stars63,80558,902
Last commit2mo ago4d ago
LicenseUnlicenseApache-2.0
Open issues186360
Has tests✓✓
Has CI✓✓
Test coverage38%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade——
Cycles——
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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