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reactivex/rxswift vs zhuhaow/spechtlite

reactivex/rxswift shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, rxswift shows healthier maintenance signals than spechtlite. rxswift rates Healthy overall while spechtlite rates Mixed. rxswift last saw a commit 2 months ago with 45+ active contributors, while spechtlite last saw a commit 6 years ago with 4+ active contributors. rxswift is MIT-licensed while spechtlite is GPL-3.0-licensed. 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

zhuhaow/spechtlite

Mixed

Stale — last commit 6y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 6y ago…

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 6y ago
  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • 4 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rxswiftspechtlite
Stars24,6442,920
Last commit2mo ago6y ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues1013
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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