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adobe-commerce vs Proton Mail

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

adobe-commerce and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a modest lead over adobe-commerce (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 32). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Proton Mail is ahead of adobe-commerce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), adobe-commerce is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is ahead of adobe-commerce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is slightly ahead of adobe-commerce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of adobe-commerce.

adobe-commerce carries 39 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 417.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

adobe-commerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.

Side-by-side metrics

Metricadobe-commerceProton Mail
Ranking
Overall rank#662#401
Pillars
Overall3241
Code5164
Education4442
Community2846
Reach4044
Momentum2152
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3916,265
Forks312,240
Public repos21186
Active repos (90d)919
External contributors420
Avg polish4774
Avg AI-readiness4732

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