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thealgorithms/c-plus-plus vs yangyangwithgnu/hardseed

thealgorithms/c-plus-plus shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, c-plus-plus shows healthier maintenance signals than hardseed. c-plus-plus rates Healthy overall while hardseed rates Mixed. c-plus-plus last saw a commit 8 months ago with 34+ active contributors, while hardseed last saw a commit 7 years ago with 3+ active contributors. c-plus-plus is MIT-licensed while hardseed is GPL-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

yangyangwithgnu/hardseed

Mixed

Stale — last commit 8y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 8y ago…

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

last commit was 8y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 8y ago
  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 3 active contributors
  • GPL-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • 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-plushardseed
Stars34,2069,216
Last commit8mo ago7y ago
LicenseMITGPL-2.0
Open issues3337
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage1%6%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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