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I have a strange relationship with GitHub stars. On one hand, I love them - they give my projects exposure (I always mention cleaver [0] during my interviews) a
by prezjordan 13y ago
I have a strange relationship with GitHub stars. On one hand, I love them - they give my projects exposure (I always mention cleaver [0] during my interviews) and let me know how many people are "using" my project.
On the other hand, I feel it sort of pushes me in the wrong direction. Stars aren't a good indicator of use, or even importance. For instance, cleaver is not technically challenging, yet it shares the same number of stars as numpy [1].
So, not sure how I feel about them - not sure what they measure.
[0]: https://github.com/jdan/cleaver https://github.com/jdan/cleaver
[1]: https://github.com/numpy/numpy https://github.com/numpy/numpy
- sheetjs 13y agoTo an extent, projects that lean more on github tend to receive more github stars. I don't know when numpy switched over to github, but their website still uses SF to distribute the official binaries. On the other hand, many projects initially started as github repos and naturally draw people that way. As an example, consider d3, where the main page rests on d3js.org but most of the links point to the github project wiki.
- beliu 13y agoprezjordan, you should check out Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com). It shows you how many other projects/people actually use a library and how they use it (code snippets). [0]: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/jdan/cleaver https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/jdan/cleaver [1]: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/numpy/numpy https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/numpy/numpy disclaimer: I am one of the creators of Sourcegraph and would love to hear what you think about it!