lizardbyte/sunshine vs thealgorithms/c-plus-plus
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, sunshine and c-plus-plus both show healthy maintenance signals. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while c-plus-plus last saw a commit 8 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
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.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% 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
thealgorithms/c-plus-plus
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.
- ⚠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 | 36,974 | 34,206 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 8mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 106 | 33 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 47% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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