beyonddimension/steamtools vs laochiangx/common.utility
beyonddimension/steamtools shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, steamtools shows stronger maintenance signals than common.utility. steamtools rates Mixed overall while common.utility rates Concerns. steamtools last saw a commit 3 months ago with 8+ active contributors, while common.utility last saw a commit 3 years ago with 7+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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beyonddimension/steamtools →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
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.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8w ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓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
laochiangx/common.utility →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 3y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 3y ago
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago
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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓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
| steamtools | common.utility | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,386 | 5,311 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 3y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | — |
| Open issues | 1,120 | 13 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Concerns signals |
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