Stars history of some Fortran projects on GitHub

I have discovered the https://star-history.com/ site on the GitHub of LFortran. I have generated this chart with three important projects in the community (I could not add more because I was limited by the site which asked me a GitHub Access Token):

Star History Chart

We can note a strong slope change in the LFortran curve (GSOC2022? New @certik position?) six months ago.

And a nice linearity concerning fpm and stdlib: no slowdown for the moment!

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The change in LFortran’s slope is moving LFortran from GitLab to GitHub. GitHub just has more momentum and a larger community.

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So the GitLab stars were transferred to GitHub?

No, the GitLab stars are still there: lfortran / lfortran · GitLab, and I archived the gitlab repository (you can’t transfer stars). I think when we moved to GitHub, all the pull requests (over 500 now at Pull requests · lfortran/lfortran · GitHub) and issues probably generate more interest. I think before the move we only had a mirror at GitHub and some people who discovered LFortran didn’t star it, but now when it is the main repository, people star it more often.

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