imputnet/helium vs light-city/cplusplusthings
imputnet/helium shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, helium shows healthier maintenance signals than cplusplusthings. helium rates Healthy overall while cplusplusthings rates Mixed. helium was committed to 2 weeks ago with 6+ active contributors, while cplusplusthings last saw a commit 4 months ago with 24+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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imputnet/helium
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
light-city/cplusplusthings
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
- •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
| helium | cplusplusthings | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,893 | 43,414 |
| Last commit | 19d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 490 | 10 |
| Has tests | ✓ | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 13% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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