Linear vs Woo

Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Linear and Woo sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (55), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Woo is clearly ahead of Linear. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Linear is ahead of Woo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Woo is ahead of Linear. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Linear is clearly ahead of Woo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Woo is clearly 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. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Woo's footprint is roughly 11.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Linear is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Woo 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.