Highlight vs Maple

Highlight significantly outpaces Maple in community adoption with 9,378 stars compared to 1,801 stars on GitHub. This 5.2x difference suggests Highlight has a much larger and more active community. In terms of developer contributions, Highlight has 680 forks, indicating moderate developer engagement.

Maple is growing faster, adding 70 stars in the last 30 days (+4%) against adding 7 stars for Highlight (+0.1%). Maple is the smaller project of the two, so it is closing the gap rather than extending a lead.

Maple shows more recent development activity with its last commit 11 hours ago, while Highlight was last updated 1 month ago. This suggests Maple is being more actively maintained.

Both tools share common technology foundations, being built with JavaScript, CSS, Bash, Typescript, JSX, Python, Golang, Rust. However, they differ in their additional technology choices: Highlight uses Next.js, SCSS, PHP, Java, Ruby, C#, Perl, Elixir while Maple leverages Vue, Swift.

Highlight has been in development longer, starting 6 years ago, compared to Maple which began 8 months ago. This 5.6-year head start suggests Highlight may have more mature features and established processes.

Highlight is licensed under Apache-2.0, while Maple's license terms are not publicly specified.

Both tools serve similar use cases in Performance Monitoring (APM). However, they also have distinct specializations: Highlight also focuses on Error Tracking while Maple extends into Log Management.

Both Highlight and Maple offer self-hosting capabilities, giving you full control over your data and infrastructure.