Linear vs Salesforce

Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) 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 Linear (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 ahead of Linear. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of Linear. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of Linear. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Linear is clearly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce is ahead of Linear.

Linear carries 1,971 GitHub stars across 22 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 35.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Linear is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Salesforce looks better where community 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.