babylonjs/babylon.js vs playcanvas/engine
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, babylon.js and engine both show healthy maintenance signals. babylon.js was committed to 2 weeks ago with 15+ active contributors, while engine was committed to 2 weeks ago with 6+ active contributors. babylon.js is Apache-2.0-licensed while engine is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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babylonjs/babylon.js
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
playcanvas/engine
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| babylon.js | engine | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,990 | 16,575 |
| Last commit | 20d ago | 19d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 17 | 527 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 29% | 13% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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