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killercup/cargo-edit vs zellij-org/zellij

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, cargo-edit and zellij both show healthy maintenance signals. cargo-edit last saw a commit 2 months ago with 6+ active contributors, while zellij last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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killercup/cargo-edit

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
  • Last commit 3w ago
  • 6 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

zellij-org/zellij

Healthy

Healthy across the board

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 66% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 19 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cargo-editzellij
Stars3,40232,285
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues701,681
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%92%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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