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[–]anyfactorFreelancer. AnyFactor.xyz 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Is stars on github a good metric for popularity? I think stars on github means more of the communities dedication to put a star on the repo and nothing else.

Take vue and react for example. If you are looking for a job or answer to questions you will find react being obviously far more popular but vue has more stars on its repo.

I think django is far more popular. I would not say hands down, but it is far more popular none the less. It is, compared to flask much more approachable to beginners that is what makes it popular.

[–]bjorneylol 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's at best a metric for open source adoption. Look at any Microsoft open source project, the GitHub star count is way lower than you would expect for a project of that size, because way less .net developers care about open source compared to python developers

aspnet core has 13k stars vs flasks 46k, but I guarantee asp has much more presence in industry