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rtk-ai/rtk vs sharkdp/fd

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

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rtk-ai/rtk

Healthy

Healthy across the board

Use as dependencyHealthy

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
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  • CI configured
  • Tests present
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

sharkdp/fd

Healthy

Healthy across the board

Use as dependencyHealthy

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit 5d ago
  • 17 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
Show 3 more →
  • CI configured
  • Tests present
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rtkfd
Stars43,72942,886
Last commit7d ago13d ago
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Open issues829182
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage21%19%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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