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Yeah good point... definitely something I would have checked, forgot to put it in the list. I'm baffled people have trouble coming up with more than "number of stars" for this.

Of course there can be libraries that are more or less "finished", so the last commit/frequency of commits isn't on its own a deciding factor, but in proper context/holistically it is definitely an important metric!

>>throw_+(OP)
FWIW, I am not baffled by that, as the vast majority of programmers are not "talented professionals" (which is the specific category of potential employee I was balling at, along with enterprises and venture capital firms). So like, you ask your question, they say "star count", and you don't have to really continue the interview.

(When I was in high school, I used to work for a pre-Internet company that helped people pre-filter interview candidates for ads posted in classified sections of newspapers and what they did was have questions like this that could be asked by people well before they reached your calendar for an interview.)