Salesforce vs Starling Bank

Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a meaningful lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 33). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Salesforce carries 68,892 GitHub stars across 417 public repos, with 75 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 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 Salesforce's footprint is roughly 353.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.