rust-lang/rustlings

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

5

Human commits, 90 days

46

Human commits, 365 days

155

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Sep 29, 2026 (15 days ago)

Last human commit

Sep 29, 2026 (15 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

6

Last release

Aug 21, 2025 (1 year ago)

Median PR merge time

6 days

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

155 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

2

Contributors

414

Top committers

• mo8it: 50% of commits
• senekor: 33% of commits
• foxfromworld: 2% of commits
• YangSiJun528: 2% of commits
• hippietrail: 1% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 23, 2015 to Nov 24, 2015: about 18 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 30, 2016 to Feb 10, 2016: about 569 more stars than usual, peak 394 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 25, 2016 to Mar 30, 2016: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 3, 2018 to Mar 6, 2018: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 15, 2018 to Mar 16, 2018: about 22 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 18, 2018 to Sep 21, 2018: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jul 29, 2019 to Jul 31, 2019: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 23, 2019 to Dec 24, 2019: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 2, 2020 to Jan 4, 2020: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 12, 2020 to May 12, 2020: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 3, 2020 to Aug 7, 2020: about 642 more stars than usual, peak 249 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 6, 2020 to Sep 6, 2020: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 16, 2020 to Nov 16, 2020: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Feb 8, 2021 to Feb 10, 2021: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 13, 2021 to Feb 15, 2021: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 26, 2021 to Apr 27, 2021: about 197 more stars than usual, peak 155 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 12, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021: about 295 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 16, 2022 to May 18, 2022: about 238 more stars than usual, peak 205 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 16, 2022 to Jul 26, 2022: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 382 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 1, 2022 to Sep 5, 2022: about 280 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 8, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 24, 2023 to Mar 27, 2023: about 488 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 30, 2023 to May 1, 2023: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 5, 2023 to Sep 6, 2023: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Sep 10, 2023 to Sep 12, 2023: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 14, 2023 to Nov 16, 2023: about 260 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 14, 2024 to Jan 17, 2024: about 248 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• rustlings (CARGO): latest 6.5.0, published Aug 21, 2025
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: rust-lang/rustlings, deps.dev: Cargo rustlings