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Why should anyone care how many github stars one library has compared to another?
by dopamean 8y ago
Why should anyone care how many github stars one library has compared to another?
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- wmil 8y agoGithub stars are proportional to the size of the community. You don't want to bet your company on a project with only a few thousand stars, it could die quickly.
- beefsack 8y agoAngular has a monumental enterprise userbase, and I wonder what percentage of those developers even have a GitHub account. GitHub stars are a more a measure of hype than the size of the community.
- baybal2 8y ago>Angular has a monumental enterprise userbase, and I wonder what percentage of those developers even have a GitHub account. And much of it is still on 1.x
- atombender 8y agoAnecdotal counterpoint: I star projects to bookmark them, so that when I have a spare moment I can go through the list and find interesting repos that I might use. But I typically don't unstar later if I stop using something. I should, but I just don't "clean" my collection that often.
- Torn 8y ago+1 for this - I star things to come back to and try out. I've started Vue for this reason, unlike React which I use in working hours
- staticassertion 8y agoYeah, same way I 'favorite' something on Twitter. I might disagree with the tweet, but I want to come back to it later to read the conversation, etc.
- iliaznk 8y agoSecond that, and just like any bookmarks – I rarely return to them afterwards )
- danso 8y agoI agree there's a decent correlation. There are a few notable exceptions/edge cases. For example, Ruby's rake has just ~1,300 stars: https://github.com/ruby/rake https://github.com/ruby/rake It'd be an interesting project to compare frameworks/tools by aggregating the stars (or whatever metric) of its major (i.e. filtering out hobby forks and skeleton repos) dependent projects, e.g. the 22K stars of gatsbyjs/gatsby would count towards React's overall reach/popularity.