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burntsushi

Andrew Gallant

I love to code.

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Ship machine

Overall

89.9

/ 100

Roasts

The terminal refuses to lose

You made searching files feel like a national infrastructure project, then apparently kept polishing it until the command line developed standards.

Rename everything, but responsibly

Most people rename one file and call it a day; this project looks at an entire media library and says, “What if chaos had a migration plan?”

Time, now with homework

The calendar was already complicated, so naturally you built another serious Rust project to make time itself submit to better tooling.

The mysterious middle child

Bttf arrives with a name that sounds like a movie reference and the portfolio energy of a utility that expects you to know the backstory before asking questions.

Formats fear the parser

TOML looks friendly until someone maintains the serious implementation; then every punctuation mark gets its own governance process.

Category breakdown

burntsushi category score radarImpactConsistencyQualityDepthBreadthCommunity

Consistency

96

The supplied repositories show sustained recent activity across nearly every listed project, with dates extending through 2026 and a long profile history.

Impact

95

The portfolio centers on widely useful systems, search, parsing, text, time, and data tooling, with several projects showing unusually strong public traction; usefulness and ambition are evident from the project set itself.

Quality

88

Repository scope, longevity, language choices, and continued maintenance are strong engineering-maturity signals, though source, tests, CI, and implementation details are unavailable.

Breadth

63

The listed work spans Rust and Go and covers search, parsing, file traversal, text processing, time, data formats, testing, and utilities, but remains concentrated in systems and developer tooling.

Depth

96

Multiple non-fork repositories have long-lived ownership and recent updates, including a substantial cluster of related foundational libraries and major tools.

Community

86

The supplied profile and repository metadata indicate substantial community reach and adoption, used here only as a modest supporting signal rather than as a substitute for project substance.

Stats

52-week commit heatmap

246 active days

Language distribution

  • Rust92%
  • Go8%

Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.

Numbers

182

Public repos

13079

Followers

897

Commits

1

History

Top repos

burntsushi/ripgrep

96

A major Rust search utility with broad practical scope, sustained ownership, and unusually strong evidence of usefulness from its long-term activity and adoption.

Rust · ★ 67125

burntsushi/memchr

86

A focused Rust library for character-oriented processing, maintained recently and positioned as reusable foundational tooling.

Rust · ★ 1529

burntsushi/toml

88

A mature Go TOML project with substantial longevity, clear format-parsing relevance, and continued maintenance.

Go · ★ 4990

burntsushi/jiff

91

A dedicated Rust time library with meaningful scope and recent development, suggesting sustained investment in a foundational domain.

Rust · ★ 2867

burntsushi/quickcheck

84

A long-lived Rust property-testing project with a clear developer-tooling purpose and ongoing maintenance.

Rust · ★ 2780

burntsushi/globset

72

A Rust globbing-related library with a focused premise and evidence of maintained ownership, though the supplied metadata shows a smaller apparent footprint.

Rust · ★ 46

burntsushi/imdb-rename

70

A practical Rust file-renaming utility with a distinctive domain premise and recent activity, narrower than the portfolio's foundational libraries.

Rust · ★ 248

burntsushi/walkdir

84

A maintained Rust directory-walking library with durable utility and a focused, reusable scope.

Rust · ★ 1528

burntsushi/rust-csv

87

A Rust CSV library with a broadly useful data-processing role, substantial longevity, and recent maintenance.

Rust · ★ 1952

burntsushi/aho-corasick

84

A Rust pattern-matching library with foundational scope and sustained activity, fitting the portfolio's systems-tooling focus.

Rust · ★ 1276

burntsushi/bttf

78

A Rust project with an unusual name and sustained recent activity; the supplied metadata supports active ownership but gives limited detail about its purpose.

Rust · ★ 758

burntsushi/bstr

83

A maintained Rust byte-string-oriented library with specialized systems relevance and a clear place in the broader tooling cluster.

Rust · ★ 1106

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Rated 2026-08-09 · rating-rubric/3 · aging