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sharkdp/fd vs thealgorithms/rust

sharkdp/fd shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, fd shows healthier maintenance signals than rust. fd rates Healthy overall while rust rates Mixed. fd last saw a commit 1 month ago with 17+ active contributors, while rust last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors. fd is Apache-2.0-licensed while rust is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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sharkdp/fd

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.

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

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

thealgorithms/rust

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 13 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

fdrust
Stars42,88625,829
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues1827
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage19%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles8
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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