OpenCart vs Proton Mail

OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

OpenCart and Proton Mail sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

OpenCart carries 8,157 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors.

OpenCart is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail 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.