microsoft/wsl vs std-microblock/chromatic
microsoft/wsl shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, wsl shows healthier maintenance signals than chromatic. wsl rates Healthy overall while chromatic rates Mixed. wsl last saw a commit 1 month ago with 22+ active contributors, while chromatic last saw a commit 2 months ago with 1+ active contributor. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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microsoft/wsl →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓22+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
std-microblock/chromatic →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| wsl | chromatic | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 32,194 | 8,285 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 953 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 4% | 83% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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