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The more stars your project has, the more likely people and companies are going to use it. Stars represent trust. When it comes to adoption of an open source pr
by jondubois 8y ago
The more stars your project has, the more likely people and companies are going to use it.
Stars represent trust. When it comes to adoption of an open source project, trust is everything.
- dajonker 8y agoWhich is terrible. Some people think because a github repo has a certain amount of stars they don't have to actually think or look at the actual code in that repo. I've seen devs frowning at github repositories because they "only had x stars" or recommending to "pick the library one with most github stars" as if that would be the best fit for your need.
- jondubois 8y agoI agree but very large companies go to extreme lengths to minimize risk in their code so number of stars makes sense from that perspective. What annoys me more is when statups refuse to use a library because it's not being used by any well known company. Then the open source library never gets any opportunity at all to prove itself; not even in a niche of small startups... It's like being homeless; nobody will give you a job no matter how good you are because you stink like failure.