Codecademy vs Fillout

Codecademy (The easiest way to learn to code.) and Fillout both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Codecademy and Fillout sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (37), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Codecademy carries 5,241 GitHub stars across 86 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Fillout shows 2 stars across 9 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Codecademy's footprint is roughly 2620.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Codecademy is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Fillout 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.