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sharkdp/fd vs trickster0/offensiverust

sharkdp/fd shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, fd shows healthier maintenance signals than offensiverust. fd rates Healthy overall while offensiverust rates Concerns. fd last saw a commit 1 month ago with 17+ active contributors, while offensiverust last saw a commit 2 years ago with 12+ active contributors. 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

trickster0/offensiverust

Concerns

Stale and unlicensed — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; last commit was 2y ago…

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 2y ago…

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 12 active contributors
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

fdoffensiverust
Stars42,8863,008
Last commit1mo ago2y ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Open issues1821
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage19%17%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsConcerns signals

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