lizardbyte/sunshine vs thealgorithms/c-plus-plus
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than c-plus-plus. sunshine rates Healthy overall while c-plus-plus rates Mixed. sunshine was committed to 2 weeks ago with 18+ active contributors, while c-plus-plus last saw a commit 11 months ago with 34+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while c-plus-plus is MIT-licensed. 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
thealgorithms/c-plus-plus
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 7mo ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% 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
| sunshine | c-plus-plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 40,814 | 34,206 |
| Last commit | 14d ago | 11mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 143 | 33 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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