Excalidraw vs Moodle Development

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Moodle Development (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 34). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is ahead of Moodle Development. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Moodle Development. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Moodle Development. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of Moodle Development. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Moodle Development is slightly 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. Moodle Development shows 7,353 stars across 15 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 25 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 18.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Moodle Development 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.