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avelino/awesome-go vs hashicorp/hcl

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, awesome-go and hcl both show healthy maintenance signals. awesome-go was committed to today with 76+ active contributors, while hcl last saw a commit 1 month ago with 25+ active contributors. awesome-go is MIT-licensed while hcl is MPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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avelino/awesome-go

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 76+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

hashicorp/hcl

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit 6d ago
  • 25+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 12% 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

awesome-gohcl
Stars176,5275,764
Last committoday1mo ago
LicenseMITMPL-2.0
Open issues184228
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage10%81%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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