From my perspective and how I judge it, yes. If I was investigating some password solution in Go and gloss over a gopass project with 1k stars I would certainl

From my perspective and how I judge it, yes. If I was investigating some password solution in Go and gloss over a gopass project with 1k stars I would certainly investigate it. If another project only has two stars it would get investigated later in case gopass doesn't meet my requirements. That is not the only metric I use but it is a first pass. I don't think anyone has time to analyze every project out there to see if they're good or not. It's a little like how people filter out some CVs based on X attribute. Which is unfair and it isn't the perfect metric but when the volume is too big you gotta have a first filter. Obviously if someone in my network highly recommend a CV, or, in this case, a Golang pass tool, I would investigate it first