dandavison/delta vs evilsocket/cake
dandavison/delta shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, delta shows healthier maintenance signals than cake. delta rates Healthy overall while cake rates Mixed. delta last saw a commit 3 months ago with 20+ active contributors, while cake last saw a commit 2 months ago with 3+ active contributors. delta is MIT-licensed while cake is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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dandavison/delta →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
evilsocket/cake →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
non-standard license (Other); top contributor handles 95% of recent commits
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.
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓3 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| delta | cake | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,657 | 3,027 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Other |
| Open issues | 376 | 16 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 13% | 16% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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