LinkedIn vs Salesforce

LinkedIn 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 modest lead over LinkedIn (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 43). The gap of 14 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 LinkedIn. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of LinkedIn. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is slightly ahead of LinkedIn. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), LinkedIn is clearly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce is ahead of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn carries 77,785 GitHub stars across 137 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

LinkedIn 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.