Excalidraw vs The Washington Post

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 37). The gap of 18 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 The Washington Post. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), The Washington Post is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), The Washington Post is 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. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 49.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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