avelino/awesome-go vs ne0nd0g/merlin
avelino/awesome-go shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, awesome-go shows healthier maintenance signals than merlin. awesome-go rates Healthy overall while merlin rates Mixed. awesome-go was committed to today with 76+ active contributors, while merlin last saw a commit 1 year ago with 2+ active contributors. awesome-go is MIT-licensed while merlin is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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avelino/awesome-go →
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.
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 Mixed → Healthy 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
ne0nd0g/merlin →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 1y ago…
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 93% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| awesome-go | merlin | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 176,527 | 5,536 |
| Last commit | today | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 184 | 21 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 10% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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