• Miaou@jlai.lu
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    I don’t think looking at the star counts makes you automatically a bad developer, but it certainly shouldn’t be the only thing you look at. If you’re unfamiliar with libraries solving a specific problem, I don’t see anything wrong with looking at them from the most to the least popular. Popularity can also be a sign of community and therefore more likely continued “support”

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      1 year ago

      Github offers the Insights tab on every repository that provides you with actual data in those points. There are countless repositories out there that have thousands of stars and literally on person contributing to it. If you go by stars to sway your verdict, you are simply to lazy to do your due diligence which in turn makes you a bad developer.

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        1 year ago

        I’m literally writing that it’s not what I am doing, so please don’t talk to me about laziness when you can’t even read a three-sentence long comment.

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          Your claim is that there is value in using a metric that has zero meaning and validate your own negligence in claiming that it makes your choice better than random through popularity. I claim this is lazy and negligent. Please tell me what I misread.