spf13/cobra vs tmrts/go-patterns
spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than go-patterns. cobra rates Healthy overall while go-patterns rates Mixed. cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors, while go-patterns last saw a commit 2 years ago with 13+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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spf13/cobra →
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 2w ago
- ✓51+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
tmrts/go-patterns →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; 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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| cobra | go-patterns | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 43,893 | 27,942 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 363 | 66 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 3% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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