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For golang projects I usually check go-search.org [0] to see how many other packages import a given package. Number of users of a package seems like a better m
by jaytaylor 8y ago
For golang projects I usually check go-search.org [0] to see how many other packages import a given package.
Number of users of a package seems like a better metric than number of people who "favorited" something through the stars feature.
Would be really cool if github provided a way to surface "number of users" or "number of downloads" data in a way that it could be used to rank github search results [1].
[0] https://go-search.org/ https://go-search.org/
[1] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type= https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=
- Siecje 8y agoWhat about golang projects that are not imported? For example https://github.com/ochinchina/supervisord https://github.com/ochinchina/supervisord
- jaytaylor 8y agoThat's a good point, today it has 0 imports: https://go-search.org/search?q=supervisord https://go-search.org/search?q=supervisord I guess we can say that while it'd be a useful metric, clearly not in all cases :)