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Are there 90M programmers?
by javajosh 4y ago
Are there 90M programmers?
- woodruffw 4y agoAt least at my company, it’s normal to have technical writers, project managers, etc. have GitHub accounts as well. I could easily see them getting to 90M active users, regardless of how many programmers there are.
- senttoschool 4y agoOn my team, 30% of the Github users are not programmers. Product managers, testers, designers all use Github project management and create issues for developers.
- Proven 4y ago
- ianschmitz 4y agoWhat do they consider “active”?
- spaceman_2020 4y agoI had a Github account for years even when the only programming I could do was write “hello world” in Javascript
- Gigachad 4y agoPutting that in perspective, GitHub has around 1% of the global population as an active user.
- origin_path 4y agoThe usual estimate is that there are about 20-25M programmers worldwide. So probably not.
- DannyBee 4y agoNo. Usual estimate is ~20M. High end is usually ~23M. It doesn't grow that fast.
- butactually 4y ago