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Sometimes projects get stars just because people like the personality or company behind the project. Case in point: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/ https://g
by muglug 2y ago
Sometimes projects get stars just because people like the personality or company behind the project.
Case in point: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/ https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/. It got 15,000 stars in its first few years, but roughly 10 non-Facebook companies actually ever used it in production, and today only one non-Facebook company uses it (I work at that company).
- consumer451 2y agoSometimes, they are surreal stars for surrealist languages that zero people actually use: https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd - 11.7k stars
- humbugtheman 2y agorude. i use dreamberd
- consumer451 2y agoI didn’t mean to be, I genuinely didn’t know that people did that. May I ask how/in what in context?
- michaelmior 2y agoThat doesn't mean that the stars are just because people like the company. People may find the technology interesting even if they have no intent of using it.