Microsoft GitHub announced in the official blog that it has reached 100 million users, and now officially more than 100 million developers use GitHub to build, maintain and contribute software projects, two years ahead of the official 2025 goal.
Microsoft GitHub ushered in the first line of code commit in October 2007. Today, developers are no longer just people who build software for tech companies, but an increasingly diverse and global group that spend their free time tinkering with code, designs, and documentation, contributing to open source projects, conducting scientific research, and more.
According to GitHub officials, in 2015, nearly one-third of the developers on GitHub were from North America. Today, some of the fastest growing regions come from elsewhere, such as Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. In India alone, more than 10 million developers use GitHub to build software. In Brazil, more than 3 million new developers use GitHub.
GitHub officially announced that it had reached 73 million developers at the end of 2021, and now it has added 27 million new developers after more than a year.
GitHub said that with the increased responsibility, the platform is no longer just a website equipped with tools for developers, but needs to provide developers with everything they need to focus on doing their best work. As home to 100 million developers, GitHub will help more new developers enter the technology field, help people work together to build the next great thing, accelerate human progress, and solve problems we don’t yet understand.
