alt Hacker Newsvictor's legit and people have been excited about his work for years; squashing the history was just a bit of an optics oopsie on his part. the star to fork ratio makes perfect sense for something like bend.
- fstar: 3k stars, 267 forks
- coalton: 1.8k stars, 111 forks
- carp: 6k stars, 267 forks
- c3: 5.8k stars, 400 forks
when something is novel/young (not having had time to grow large and accumulate issues in the vein of "1 doc page out of 1000 is worded incorrectly") and (as of yet) niche (innate barrier to entry for contribution because you have to learn from square 1 what all the moving parts look like), you don't see the same activity patterns on public source hosts as with a general-purpose language.
About forks alone I get it, but look at their issues.
- fstar: 2K issues, stars-issue ratio: 0.6.
- coalton: 700 issues, ratio: 0.4
- carp: 450 issues, ratio: 0.08
- c3: 1.9K issues. ratio: 0.3
Bend has 300 issues for 20K stars so ratio is about 0.02. Maybe their followers starred the repo as a fan activity? It could explain too many stars and too few forks/issues/prs.