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I am not necessarily surprised by the results.

It is worth noting that the second most popular "software tool" tucked in between oh-my-zsh and homebrew (both command-line tools/packages) is Tensorflow.

That has to say something about the current state of the industry, though admittedly, I am a little confused as to why it was classified as a "software tool" and not say, "a non-web library or framework."

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I think a lot of people star Tensorflow and then never look at it again though.

In the last week, Tensorflow hat 59 new issues files. That seems to be #1 among those on these lists by a large margin. Second place is electron with 29 (only a bit more than half as much). After that it's react and Atom with 10 each.

That seems to indicate that tensorflow is getting plenty of use.

It might also indicate that it's just moving fast, so a lot of things break. It might also indicate that people are using the issue tracker as a support forum. I don't know. But by itself, the "new issues per week" metric is utterly meaningless.

For example, I would guess that SQLite does not get more than 59 new bugreports per week, even though SQLite most definitely is much more widely used than TF.

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