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hneemann/digital vs lmax-exchange/disruptor

lmax-exchange/disruptor shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, disruptor shows healthier maintenance signals than digital. disruptor rates Healthy overall while digital rates Mixed. digital last saw a commit 10 months ago with 8+ active contributors, while disruptor last saw a commit 1 year ago with 14+ active contributors. digital is GPL-3.0-licensed while disruptor is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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hneemann/digital

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 9mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits

HealthyFork & modify

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

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

  • Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 9mo ago
  • 8 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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

lmax-exchange/disruptor

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

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

HealthyFork & modify

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

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 61% of recent commits
  • 14 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

digitaldisruptor
Stars5,70318,326
Last commit10mo ago1y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues19117
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage6%41%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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