mre/idiomatic-rust vs nushell/nushell
nushell/nushell shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, nushell shows healthier maintenance signals than idiomatic-rust. nushell rates Healthy overall while idiomatic-rust rates Mixed. idiomatic-rust last saw a commit 4 months ago with 18+ active contributors, while nushell last saw a commit 1 month ago with 25+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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mre/idiomatic-rust →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 76% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
nushell/nushell →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓25+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 19% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| idiomatic-rust | nushell | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,682 | 39,387 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | — | MIT |
| Open issues | 0 | 1,489 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 12% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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