Adobe, Inc. vs Duolingo

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Duolingo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Duolingo (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 43). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Duolingo shows 1,721 stars across 12 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 36.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Duolingo looks better where reach 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.