avelino/awesome-go vs polaris1119/the-golang-standard-library-by-example
avelino/awesome-go shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, awesome-go shows healthier maintenance signals than the-golang-standard-library-by-example. awesome-go rates Healthy overall while the-golang-standard-library-by-example rates Concerns. awesome-go was committed to today with 76+ active contributors, while the-golang-standard-library-by-example last saw a commit 3 years ago with 20+ active contributors. 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
polaris1119/the-golang-standard-library-by-example →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 3y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 3y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| awesome-go | the-golang-standard-library-by-example | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 176,527 | 9,566 |
| Last commit | today | 3y ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 184 | 33 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 10% | 54% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Concerns signals |
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