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Github 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 quickl
by wmil 8y ago
Github 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.