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thealgorithms/c-plus-plus vs tstack/lnav

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, c-plus-plus and lnav both show healthy maintenance signals. c-plus-plus last saw a commit 8 months ago with 34+ active contributors, while lnav last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors. c-plus-plus is MIT-licensed while lnav is BSD-2-Clause-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

tstack/lnav

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.

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 2 active contributors
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

c-plus-pluslnav
Stars34,20610,251
Last commit8mo ago1mo ago
LicenseMITBSD-2-Clause
Open issues33269
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage1%23%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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