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Re: GitHub's fake star economy

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Post by baranul » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC

AndyKelley wrote: post #399

baranul wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Way more suspicious star count looks to be from Zig[1]. That's based on their weird GitHub repo history[2]. In fact the initial negative campaigns initiated by the creators of Zig and Odin against V (and then turned on other languages like C3[4] and Zen C[5]), appeared to have been based on jealousy over supporter donations and GitHub stars. Zig, has among the weirdest GitHub star history of any language repo seen. S…

your links don't back up your claims

The truth can not simply be blanked out. Others can not be responsible for refusal to read, research, or any denial of reality.

[1] Zig on GitHub has 3,042 open issues (as of this post)

Link: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues

[2] Tracking of Zig's strange star history

Link: https://ossinsight.io/analyze/ziglang/zig#overview

Note: historical changes in stars given to Zig, per month and year, have been recorded

[3] Vlang has (for years) been ranked as a near or top 10 GitHub repo based on stars

Link: https://ossinsight.io/collections/programming-language/trend...

Note: vlang's quick rise and continual popularity is widely known for creating jealousy and resentment among its rivals

[4] Zen C's star history compared to C3

Link: https://ossinsight.io/compare/c3lang/c3c/zenc-lang/zenc#over...

Note: Zen C's quick rise in stars and emerging popularity as a new competitor to Zig and C language alternative

Re: GitHub's fake star economy

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Post by account42 » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

eek2121 wrote: post #363

whatisthiseven wrote: post #106

I don't think I have ever used stars in making a decision to use a library and I don't understand why anyone would. Here are the things I look at in order: * last commit date. Newer is better * age. old is best if still updating. New is not great but tolerable if commits aren't rapid * issues. Not the count, mind you, just looking at them. How are they handled, what kind of issues are lingering open. * some of the co…

Honestly, anyone using Github as a basis for hiring to begin with is approaching hiring with flawed thinking. Github isn't the only source for git, and git isn't the only standard for version control. Further, Github has been pushing companies AWAY from the platform thanks to high costs and other nonsense. I've seen more than one company either run a local git server or something like a local git lab instance. Using…

Except companies aren't looking for the smartest programmer, they looking for a cog to fit into a spot in the machine. In that sense, evaluation someone on how well they do on the de-facto standard platform makes sense, unfortunately.

Re: GitHub's fake star economy

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Post by swordsith » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

evilsocket wrote: post #383

swordsith wrote: post #333

Very obviously AI written, could tell by the end of the first sentence. Could've been a interesting read.. if you wrote it.

It does not make the numbers, research and original research on top of which this is based, wrong :D

idc its obviously Ai, your algo is wrong.