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Adobe, Inc. vs Lightspeed Commerce Inc.

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

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

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 38). The gap of 23 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 Lightspeed Commerce Inc.. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Lightspeed Commerce Inc.. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Lightspeed Commerce Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Lightspeed Commerce Inc..

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. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. shows 145 stars across 6 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 435.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. looks better where education 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, Inc.Lightspeed Commerce Inc.
Ranking
Overall rank#47#485
Pillars
Overall6138
Code8451
Education6269
Community5333
Reach3415
Momentum6628
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars63,154145
Forks13,52919
Public repos1,1086
Active repos (90d)910
External contributors872
Avg polish9554
Avg AI-readiness4622

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