mame/quine-relay vs socketry/falcon
socketry/falcon shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, falcon shows healthier maintenance signals than quine-relay. falcon rates Healthy overall while quine-relay rates Mixed. quine-relay last saw a commit 8 months ago with 10+ active contributors, while falcon last saw a commit 2 months ago with 6+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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mame/quine-relay →
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 7mo ago
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
socketry/falcon →
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.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 4w ago
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| quine-relay | falcon | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 14,476 | 2,992 |
| Last commit | 8mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | — | MIT |
| Open issues | 17 | 29 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 3% | 30% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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