gizak/termui vs spf13/cobra
spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than termui. cobra rates Healthy overall while termui rates Mixed. termui last saw a commit 11 months ago with 10+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. termui is MIT-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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gizak/termui →
Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
no tests detected; 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 10mo ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 10mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →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
spf13/cobra →
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 2w ago
- ✓51+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| termui | cobra | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,544 | 43,893 |
| Last commit | 11mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 106 | 363 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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