helix-editor/helix vs ogham/exa
helix-editor/helix shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, helix shows healthier maintenance signals than exa. helix rates Healthy overall while exa rates Mixed. helix last saw a commit 1 month ago with 42+ active contributors, while exa last saw a commit 1 year ago with 27+ active contributors. helix is MPL-2.0-licensed while exa is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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helix-editor/helix →
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 today
- ✓42+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
ogham/exa →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
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.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓27+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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
| helix | exa | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 44,261 | 24,441 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1y ago |
| License | MPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,533 | 213 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 34% | 7% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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