google/re2 vs microsoft/bitnet
microsoft/bitnet shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, bitnet shows healthier maintenance signals than re2. bitnet rates Healthy overall while re2 rates Mixed. re2 last saw a commit 7 months ago with 6+ active contributors, while bitnet last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. re2 is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while bitnet is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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google/re2
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
microsoft/bitnet
Strong maintenance signals
no CI workflows detected; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| re2 | bitnet | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,660 | 40,224 |
| Last commit | 7mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | MIT |
| Open issues | 42 | 319 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 100% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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