nchudleigh/vimac vs reactivex/rxswift
reactivex/rxswift shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, rxswift shows healthier maintenance signals than vimac. rxswift rates Healthy overall while vimac rates Mixed. vimac last saw a commit 3 years ago with 3+ active contributors, while rxswift last saw a commit 2 months ago with 45+ active contributors. vimac is GPL-3.0-licensed while rxswift is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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nchudleigh/vimac →
Stale — last commit 3y ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 3y ago…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 96% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs); 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
reactivex/rxswift →
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 5w ago
- ✓45+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% 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
| vimac | rxswift | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,666 | 24,644 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 131 | 10 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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