autozimu/languageclient-neovim vs helix-editor/helix
helix-editor/helix shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, helix shows healthier maintenance signals than languageclient-neovim. helix rates Healthy overall while languageclient-neovim rates Mixed. languageclient-neovim last saw a commit 8 months ago with 18+ active contributors, while helix last saw a commit 1 month ago with 42+ active contributors. languageclient-neovim is MIT-licensed while helix is MPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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autozimu/languageclient-neovim →
Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 8mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 8mo ago
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
helix-editor/helix →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓42+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| languageclient-neovim | helix | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,554 | 44,261 |
| Last commit | 8mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 124 | 1,533 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 34% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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