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Foundry

Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/foundry-rs/foundry · homepage · Rust · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

94/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 83
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 5
  • age_days: 1820
  • days_rel: 117
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 40

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

10568 stars · 2608 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Foundry is a fast, portable, modular toolkit for Ethereum smart contract development written in Rust, comprising Forge (build/test/fuzz/deploy), Cast (chain interaction CLI), Anvil (local dev node with forking), and Chisel (Solidity REPL). It is the de facto standard alternative to Hardhat/Truffle for Solidity development.

Use cases

  • test and fuzz solidity smart contracts
  • deploy ethereum contracts from the command line
  • run a local ethereum node with mainnet forking
  • query blockchain data and send transactions from cli
  • prototype solidity code in a repl
  • debug evm bytecode and trace contract calls

When to choose

  • you develop or audit Solidity/Vyper smart contracts and want fast compilation and testing
  • you need fuzzing, invariant testing, or gas snapshots for contracts
  • you want to fork mainnet locally for realistic testing
  • you prefer a CLI-first workflow over JavaScript-based frameworks like Hardhat

When to avoid

  • you need a JavaScript/TypeScript-native testing environment with deep ethers.js integration
  • you are building non-EVM blockchain applications
  • you want a GUI-based contract IDE experience

Facets

framework · maturity stable

testing fuzzing compiler cli developer-tools blockchain blockchain developer-tools windows cli cross-platform ethereum solidity evm smart-contracts forge cast anvil chisel rust vyper dapp-development local-node repl linux macos

4 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
foundry-rs/foundrymain94
foundry-rs/forge-stdsdk92

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