Codecademy vs The Washington Post

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

Codecademy and The Washington Post 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), The Washington Post is ahead of Codecademy. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), The Washington Post is slightly ahead of Codecademy. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Codecademy is ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), The Washington Post is slightly ahead of Codecademy. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), The Washington Post 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. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Codecademy is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post 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.