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gustav/lexer
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A simple lexer component for parsing strings

v0.5(5y ago)1311GPLv3PHP ~7.4

Since Dec 26Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/GustavSoftware/Lexer)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/gustav/lexer)[ Docs](http://gustav.fieselschweif.de)[ RSS](/packages/gustav-lexer/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~406 days

Total

5

Last Release

2170d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1PHP ~5.4

v0.2PHP ~7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2e94b9c2235f7f12553818a7f94540eedaa2026a287d07ef12e1315ca559941a?d=identicon)[ckoecher](/maintainers/ckoecher)

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Top Contributors

[![ckoecher](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5797435?v=4)](https://github.com/ckoecher "ckoecher (11 commits)")

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Tags

lexerstringsparsing

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