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coreybutler/nvm-windows vs halfrost/halfrost-field

coreybutler/nvm-windows shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, nvm-windows shows healthier maintenance signals than halfrost-field. nvm-windows rates Healthy overall while halfrost-field rates Mixed. nvm-windows last saw a commit 2 months ago with 14+ active contributors, while halfrost-field last saw a commit 2 years ago with 4+ active contributors. nvm-windows is MIT-licensed while halfrost-field is CC-BY-SA-4.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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coreybutler/nvm-windows

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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 75% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3w ago
  • 14 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

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

halfrost/halfrost-field

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (CC-BY-SA-4.0); last commit was 2y ago…

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.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (CC-BY-SA-4.0) — review terms
  • 4 active contributors
  • CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

nvm-windowshalfrost-field
Stars46,26413,213
Last commit2mo ago2y ago
LicenseMITCC-BY-SA-4.0
Open issues833
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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