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reactivex/rxswift vs swiftkickmobile/swiftmessages

reactivex/rxswift shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, rxswift shows healthier maintenance signals than swiftmessages. rxswift rates Healthy overall while swiftmessages rates Mixed. rxswift last saw a commit 2 months ago with 45+ active contributors, while swiftmessages last saw a commit 5 months ago with 15+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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reactivex/rxswift

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.

  • 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

swiftkickmobile/swiftmessages

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 3mo ago

MixedDependency

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected

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 3mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 80% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3mo ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • MIT licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: add a test suite

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rxswiftswiftmessages
Stars24,6447,554
Last commit2mo ago5mo ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues1040
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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