nothings/stb
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
34.8k stars · 8.1k forks · C
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 70% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 2
- Human commits, 365 days
- 20
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Aug 2, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 2, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 2
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 24 days
Responsiveness: of 19 recent issues, 68% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 20 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 186
Top committers
- nothings: 70% of commits
- ell1e: 10% of commits
- jeffatrad: 10% of commits
- jeffrbig2: 5% of commits
- ruby-R53: 5% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 17, 2014 to Sep 18, 2014: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 25, 2014 to Dec 25, 2014: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 1, 2015 to Feb 2, 2015: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 1, 2015 to Apr 5, 2015: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 22, 2016 to Jan 25, 2016: about 269 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 19, 2016 to Apr 20, 2016: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 17, 2016 to Dec 18, 2016: about 43 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 20, 2017 to Feb 21, 2017: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 20, 2021 to Jun 21, 2021: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Nov 24, 2021 to Nov 24, 2021: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 5, 2023 to Apr 6, 2023: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 6, 2026 to Jan 15, 2026: about 819 more stars than usual, peak 240 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Unlicense (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Unlicense (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: nothings/stb
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2