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thealgorithms/c-plus-plus vs thecherno/hazel

thealgorithms/c-plus-plus shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, c-plus-plus shows healthier maintenance signals than hazel. c-plus-plus rates Healthy overall while hazel rates Mixed. c-plus-plus last saw a commit 8 months ago with 34+ active contributors, while hazel last saw a commit 2 years ago with 26+ active contributors. c-plus-plus is MIT-licensed while hazel is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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thealgorithms/c-plus-plus

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 7mo ago
  • Last commit 7mo ago
  • 34+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

thecherno/hazel

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; no tests detected…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 26+ active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • 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

c-plus-plushazel
Stars34,20612,978
Last commit8mo ago2y ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues33136
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage1%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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