Adyen Examples vs Proton Mail

Adyen Examples (Official examples for Adyen products and services) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen Examples and Proton Mail sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Adyen Examples carries 669 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 24.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen Examples is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail 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.