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foxcpp/maddy vs nsqio/nsq

nsqio/nsq shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, nsq shows healthier maintenance signals than maddy. nsq rates Healthy overall while maddy rates Mixed. maddy last saw a commit 1 month ago with 17+ active contributors, while nsq last saw a commit 11 months ago with 20+ active contributors. maddy is GPL-3.0-licensed while nsq is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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foxcpp/maddy

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 17 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

nsqio/nsq

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • Last commit 10mo ago
  • 20 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

maddynsq
Stars5,95325,727
Last commit1mo ago11mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues12874
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage18%24%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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