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codeeditapp/codeedit vs lwouis/alt-tab-macos

codeeditapp/codeedit shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, codeedit shows healthier maintenance signals than alt-tab-macos. codeedit rates Healthy overall while alt-tab-macos rates Mixed. codeedit last saw a commit 2 months ago with 22+ active contributors, while alt-tab-macos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors. codeedit is MIT-licensed while alt-tab-macos is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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codeeditapp/codeedit

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 22+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed 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

codeeditalt-tab-macos
Stars22,84315,592
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues19774
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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