Blackbird vs Salesforce

Blackbird and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a meaningful lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 30). The gap of 27 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 4305.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Salesforce 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.