github-linguist/linguist vs linuxbrew/brew
github-linguist/linguist shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, linguist shows healthier maintenance signals than brew. linguist rates Healthy overall while brew rates Mixed. linguist last saw a commit 1 month ago with 68+ active contributors, while brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors. linguist is MIT-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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github-linguist/linguist →
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 1w ago
- ✓68+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 12% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
linuxbrew/brew →
Stale — last commit 7y ago
last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 7y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| linguist | brew | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,458 | 2,654 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 7y ago |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 250 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 8% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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