Loom vs SAP

Loom (Async Video Messaging for Work) and SAP (SAP SE, a global software company, is one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

SAP (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Loom (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 31). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Loom carries 50 GitHub stars across 32 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. SAP shows 12,850 stars across 309 public repos, 96 active in the last 90 days and 60 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SAP's footprint is roughly 257.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Loom is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. SAP 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.