Excalidraw vs LinkedIn

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and LinkedIn both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over LinkedIn (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 43). 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), LinkedIn is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of LinkedIn. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of LinkedIn. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), LinkedIn is ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), LinkedIn is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. LinkedIn shows 77,785 stars across 137 public repos, 28 active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. LinkedIn looks better where momentum 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.