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ehang-io/nps vs go-kit/kit

go-kit/kit shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, kit shows healthier maintenance signals than nps. kit rates Healthy overall while nps rates Mixed. nps last saw a commit 2 years ago with 16+ active contributors, while kit last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors. nps is GPL-3.0-licensed while kit is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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ehang-io/nps

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 70% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • 16 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

go-kit/kit

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.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • 26+ 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

npskit
Stars34,05327,426
Last commit2y ago1y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues52558
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%4%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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