ethers vs web3

web3 vs ethers: What are the differences?

What is web3? Ethereum JavaScript API. Ethereum JavaScript API.

What is ethers? Umbrella package for most common Ethers libraries. Umbrella package for most common Ethers libraries.

web3 and ethers can be primarily classified as "npm Packages" tools.

web3 and ethers are both open source tools. It seems that web3 with 11.5K GitHub stars and 3.47K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ethers with 3.07K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks.