Stripe vs The Washington Post

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

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 37). The gap of 39 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Stripe carries 44,519 GitHub stars across 97 public repos, with 64 repositories active in the last 90 days and 124 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 Stripe's footprint is roughly 16.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Stripe is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.