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herotransitions/hero vs telegrammessenger/telegram-ios

herotransitions/hero shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, hero shows healthier maintenance signals than telegram-ios. hero rates Healthy overall while telegram-ios rates Mixed. hero last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while telegram-ios last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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herotransitions/hero

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.

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
  • 26+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

telegrammessenger/telegram-ios

Mixed

Missing license — unclear to depend on

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 54% of recent commits
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

herotelegram-ios
Stars22,4528,506
Last commit1y ago1mo ago
LicenseMIT
Open issues42649
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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