rime/squirrel vs swiftyjson/swiftyjson
swiftyjson/swiftyjson shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, swiftyjson shows healthier maintenance signals than squirrel. swiftyjson rates Healthy overall while squirrel rates Mixed. squirrel last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors, while swiftyjson last saw a commit 3 months ago with 28+ active contributors. squirrel is GPL-3.0-licensed while swiftyjson is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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rime/squirrel →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
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
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
swiftyjson/swiftyjson →
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓28+ 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
| squirrel | swiftyjson | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,946 | 22,953 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 3mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 204 | 136 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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