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microsoft/wsl vs visualfc/liteide

microsoft/wsl shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, wsl shows healthier maintenance signals than liteide. wsl rates Healthy overall while liteide rates Mixed. wsl last saw a commit 1 month ago with 22+ active contributors, while liteide last saw a commit 9 months ago with 7+ active contributors. wsl is MIT-licensed while liteide is LGPL-2.1-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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microsoft/wsl

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

visualfc/liteide

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 8mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-2.1) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 92% of recent commits…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 8mo ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 92% of recent commits
  • LGPL-2.1 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Last commit 8mo ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • LGPL-2.1 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

wslliteide
Stars32,1947,753
Last commit1mo ago9mo ago
LicenseMITLGPL-2.1
Open issues953415
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage4%7%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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