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nvbn/thefuck vs runacapital/awesome-oss-alternatives

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, thefuck and awesome-oss-alternatives both show healthy maintenance signals. thefuck last saw a commit 1 year ago with 46+ active contributors, while awesome-oss-alternatives last saw a commit 9 months ago with 40+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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nvbn/thefuck

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • 46+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

runacapital/awesome-oss-alternatives

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 8mo ago
  • 40+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

thefuckawesome-oss-alternatives
Stars96,83019,088
Last commit1y ago9mo ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues426114
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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