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sindresorhus/p-limit vs sveltejs/svelte

sveltejs/svelte shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, svelte shows healthier maintenance signals than p-limit. svelte rates Healthy overall while p-limit rates Mixed. p-limit last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while svelte was committed to today with 25+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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sindresorhus/p-limit

Mixed

OpenSSF Scorecard says this is unmaintained

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (2/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

sveltejs/svelte

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.

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
  • Last commit today
  • 25+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 34% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

p-limitsvelte
Stars2,86487,436
Last commit1mo agotoday
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues01,051
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage20%4%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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