Proton Mail vs The Washington Post

Proton Mail and The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 37). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Proton Mail carries 16,265 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors on record. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 5.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. The Washington Post looks better where education 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.