cirruslabs/tart vs johncoates/aerial
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than tart. aerial rates Healthy overall while tart rates Mixed. tart last saw a commit 2 months ago with 13+ active contributors, while aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors. tart is Other-licensed while aerial is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cirruslabs/tart →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other)
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 4w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
johncoates/aerial →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| tart | aerial | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,638 | 20,972 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 10mo ago |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 39 | 28 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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