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dotnet/roslyn vs mgth/littlebigmouse

dotnet/roslyn shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, roslyn shows healthier maintenance signals than littlebigmouse. roslyn rates Healthy overall while littlebigmouse rates Mixed. roslyn last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors, while littlebigmouse last saw a commit 10 months ago with 2+ active contributors. roslyn is MIT-licensed while littlebigmouse is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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dotnet/roslyn

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.

  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 13 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

mgth/littlebigmouse

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 9mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 99% of recent commits

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 9mo ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

roslynlittlebigmouse
Stars20,4026,226
Last commit1mo ago10mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues6,214113
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%5%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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