Excalidraw vs Salesforce

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) 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 narrow lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 55). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Salesforce is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce 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. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Salesforce 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.