sxyazi/yazi
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
42.8k stars · 1.1k forks · Rust
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 84% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 22
- Human commits, 90 days
- 96
- Human commits, 365 days
- 340
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 13
- Last release
- Sep 1, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 77% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 340 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 185
Top committers
- sxyazi: 84% of commits
- itsvyle: 1% of commits
- alastairsounds: 1% of commits
- Dan1718: 1% of commits
- GhostCoder6969: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 11, 2023 to Oct 5, 2023: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 365 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 8, 2023 to Oct 9, 2023: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 23, 2023 to Oct 26, 2023: about 305 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 7, 2024 to Jan 18, 2024: about 571 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 1, 2024 to Feb 5, 2024: about 214 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 11, 2024 to Mar 12, 2024: about 143 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 11, 2024 to May 16, 2024: about 600 more stars than usual, peak 269 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 24, 2024 to Jul 2, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 409 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 20, 2024 to Dec 30, 2024: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 282 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 26, 2025 to Jun 27, 2025: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 22, 2025: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 14, 2026 to Mar 23, 2026: about 773 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 5, 2026 to May 5, 2026: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 9 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: sxyazi/yazi
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[](https://reporadar.ai/sxyazi/yazi)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 15 hours ago · method 2026.10.2