Blackbird vs Open edX

Blackbird and Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Open edX (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 30). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Open edX shows 10,654 stars across 186 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 665.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Open edX looks better where code quality 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.