lizardbyte/sunshine vs microsoft/stl
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than stl. sunshine rates Healthy overall while stl rates Mixed. sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while stl 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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lizardbyte/sunshine
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
microsoft/stl
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sunshine | stl | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 40,814 | 11,045 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 143 | 561 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | 36% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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