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Excalidraw vs segment

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over segment (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 35). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. segment shows 0 stars across 0 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. segment looks better where reach 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawsegment
Ranking
Overall rank#103#569
Pillars
Overall5535
Code590
Education6860
Community5211
Reach4557
Momentum60
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,7440
Forks15,9370
Public repos250
Active repos (90d)30
External contributors2150
Avg polish560
Avg AI-readiness370

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