espressif/arduino-esp32 vs shadps4-emu/shadps4
espressif/arduino-esp32 shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, arduino-esp32 shows healthier maintenance signals than shadps4. arduino-esp32 rates Healthy overall while shadps4 rates Mixed. arduino-esp32 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 32+ active contributors, while shadps4 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. arduino-esp32 is LGPL-2.1-licensed while shadps4 is GPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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espressif/arduino-esp32 →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓32+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-2.1 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
shadps4-emu/shadps4 →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
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.
- ⚠GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed 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
| arduino-esp32 | shadps4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 16,737 | 31,040 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | LGPL-2.1 | GPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 169 | 139 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 10% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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