denoland/deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

108.8k stars · 6.5k forks · Rust

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 50 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 24
Human commits, 90 days: 316
Human commits, 365 days: 3k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 50
Last release: Sep 17, 2026 (27 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 18 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 7% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 5 days.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 497 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 8
Contributors: 430

Top committers

bartlomieju: 37% of commits
nathanwhit: 29% of commits
crowlKats: 4% of commits
crowlbot: 3% of commits
tomas-zijdemans: 2% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Aug 24, 2018 to Aug 24, 2018: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 14, 2018 to Dec 15, 2018: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 26, 2018 to Dec 27, 2018: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 14, 2019 to Jan 22, 2019: about 557 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 11, 2019 to Apr 12, 2019: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 23, 2019 to Apr 26, 2019: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 7, 2019 to Jul 19, 2019: about 585 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 20, 2020 to Feb 7, 2020: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 298 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 30, 2020 to Apr 2, 2020: about 290 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 5, 2020 to Jun 6, 2020: about 12k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 9, 2020 to Dec 11, 2020: about 320 more stars than usual, peak 237 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 29, 2021 to Apr 1, 2021: about 183 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 15, 2021 to Apr 16, 2021: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 11, 2021 to Aug 12, 2021: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 19, 2022 to Mar 22, 2022: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 22, 2022 to Apr 23, 2022: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 7, 2022 to May 7, 2022: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 16, 2022 to Aug 18, 2022: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 6, 2023 to Feb 8, 2023: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 10, 2024 to Feb 11, 2024: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 24, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024: about 323 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 9, 2024 to Oct 26, 2024: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 252 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Nov 12, 2024 to Nov 13, 2024: about 145 more stars than usual, peak 152 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 19, 2024 to Dec 23, 2024: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 5, 2026: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 3, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 9, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.

19 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: denoland/deno

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2