Comment by 12_throw_away
1 year ago
I know it's a meaningless metric, but I still find myself wondering how, exactly, vlang got to 35K stars on github, very much in the same order of magnitude as, say, cpython with 58K.
1 year ago
I know it's a meaningless metric, but I still find myself wondering how, exactly, vlang got to 35K stars on github, very much in the same order of magnitude as, say, cpython with 58K.
A lot of vlang-related statistics are very suspicious, probably some of the metrics are boosted by a click farm or something similar. For example, 99% of the global google searches about "vlang" are from Beijing. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
This makes very little sense to me. Keep in mind that Google is blocked in China, and has been for a long time, except maybe specific special machines from the government that may have unlimited access. Even if there is a lot of search interest from people using VPNs, it shouldn't show up as China.
"golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
So I'm not sure if that's evidence of metric boosting by a click farm, or anything else. Clicking on the question mark, it looks like it's not really a ranking of "where do searches come from", but rather "how popular is it in this region":
> Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
> "golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
But Go is a working programming language.
Was curious, so checked up. V has Chinese contributors[2] and who have also translated their documentation from English to Chinese[1]. As was mentioned, other languages have Chinese followings too.
[1] https://www.bookstack.cn/search/result?wd=Vlang
[2] https://lydiandylin.gitbook.io/
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I've been comparing various projects in a particular domain and noticed that stars aren't the best indicator for adoption/maturity level. More interesting:
- number of contributors
- number of open/closed pull requests
- number of open/closed issues
Most of the time they scale with stars, but sometimes there will be 1k+ stars but only a few pull requests, which is odd.
They have more starts than C# at 10k
Then Mojo also has more stars than C#. I guess GitHub stars don't mean much.
I wouldn’t say useless. It shows a particular interest over a project ( when not used as a bookmark)