I can't answer your questions, but Facebook's React repo has more than 10x the stars than their Zstandard repo has. Many of their other (more obscure / less use

I can't answer your questions, but Facebook's React repo has more than 10x the stars than their Zstandard repo has. Many of their other (more obscure / less used) repos have many less stars. To me this seems totally reasonable and proportional, given the types of developers that might use each library. Personally, I don't believe there is much to gain by gaming Github's stars (particularly for a compression library), because there is much more to evaluating a repo and its contents than the count of its stars. Granted, that's just my opinion, and it is somewhat tangential to your original point, just my 2p. [Disclaimer: I've used Zstandard in several projects, and will happily use it again! :) ]