ReadMe vs Salesforce

ReadMe (Interactive developer hubs that help users succeed with your APIs 🦉) 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 ReadMe (rank #257) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 47). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

ReadMe carries 1,824 GitHub stars across 106 public repos, with 26 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 37.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ReadMe is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Salesforce 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.