littlecodersh/itchat vs nvbn/thefuck
nvbn/thefuck shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, thefuck shows healthier maintenance signals than itchat. thefuck rates Healthy overall while itchat rates Mixed. itchat last saw a commit 2 years ago with 16+ active contributors, while thefuck last saw a commit 1 year ago with 46+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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littlecodersh/itchat →
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Fork & modify 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
nvbn/thefuck →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ✓46+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| itchat | thefuck | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,466 | 96,830 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 304 | 426 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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