Highlight vs Maple

Highlight significantly outpaces Maple in community adoption with 9,372 stars compared to 1,768 stars on GitHub. This 5.3x difference suggests Highlight has a much larger and more active community. In terms of developer contributions, Highlight has 673 forks, indicating moderate developer engagement.

Maple is growing faster, adding 108 stars in the last 30 days (+6.5%) against adding 14 stars for Highlight (+0.1%). Maple is the smaller project of the two, so it is closing the gap rather than extending a lead.

Both projects show recent activity, with Highlight last updated 19 days ago and Maple 15 hours ago.

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 7 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.