Salesforce vs The Washington Post

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

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a modest lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 37). The gap of 20 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 The Washington Post. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), The Washington Post is ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce is clearly ahead of The Washington Post.

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. 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 Salesforce's footprint is roughly 25.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Salesforce is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post 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.