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The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub
- davstr1 3y agoSomeone should compile this against each country population number. Would be interesting to get an approx number of coders per 1000 people in each country. And then perhaps run it against natality rates. Github list they used as a source : https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/data/developers.csv https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/data/dev...
- gregoriol 3y agoWould also be interesting to compare quality of repositories, number of interactions, ...
- timonoko 3y agohttps://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/tree/main/markdown/public_contributions https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/tree/main/mar... I am #381 in Finland, which is weird, because all I do is occasionally adjust my home automation.
- elashri 3y agoThis list has a unique non-development related factor which is that you have to have a minimum number of followers (varying from country to country) so you might be very active and contribute much more than most of the people on the list but do not have the minimum followers required (38 in your country) so you are out.
- input_sh 3y agoI should be #1 in my country by far (~4-5x more followers than the current #1), but I'm not even listed. (Yes, my location is set properly.) I don't know where they get the user data from, but it's definitely incomplete.
- Vinnl 3y agoOh huh wow, why do I have 85 followers on GitHub? What do you even see if you "follow" someone?
- lawgimenez 3y agoI’m #7 in Philippines, I am not sure why. I’m just forking things.
- kgeist 3y agoHeh, my collegue is in top 200 for Russia, which doesn't sound right either (he's not that active). P.S. Oh, it says, "You need at least 52 followers to be on this list". He gives lectures at a uni and does code reviews via Github - I guess most of the followers are his students.
- chromaton 3y agodevelopers iso2_code population fraction 20226711 US 335893238 6.02% 15528470 EU 448387872 3.46% 13326416 IN 1392329000 0.96% 9131545 CN 1409670000 0.65% 4315369 BR 203080756 2.12% 3422806 GB 67026292 5.11% 3060711 RU 146424729 2.09% 2972917 DE 84607016 3.51% 2938205 ID 279118866 1.05% 2886350 JP 124090000 2.33% 2479673 CA 40528396 6.12%
- randomdata 3y ago> Would be interesting to get an approx number of coders per 1000 people Isn't everyone a coder? You are going to be exposed to it at school, if nothing else. Which, assuming the numbers bear any reflection to reality, is what I expect a lot of the accounts to be (that is, students). But as far as those who do it professionally, as of November 2022, Statistics Canada reports 301,875 people under "Computer, software and Web designers and developers". There were 2.1 million GitHub accounts in that year.
- Oarch 3y agoThese numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high. Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?
- yorwba 3y agoI have one GitHub account for each employer where I had to use it for work, but most of those accounts would be inactive in any given year. I suspect spammers using GitHub to host their spam, as well as inaccurate geolocation e.g. due to VPN usage.
- timonoko 3y agoGithub is the bestest and cheapest way to have public but moderately used website. -- There must be some throttling for heavy use. Otherwise it would explode.
- tyingq 3y agoFake profiles generated for spam or seo purposes is probably some notable percentage. Either accounts made to spam actual repos, or satellite properties like github pages. In the latter case, the accounts might open issues/comments/etc on github repos to create some link profile for seo purposes.
- kgeist 3y agoDoesn't look right for Russia either (3 mln accounts). According to government statistics, Russia has ~820k programmers as of 2023, and from my experience, not all of them have a Github account (I do job interviews).
- roenxi 3y agoPeople who aren't programmers have github accounts.
- zebogen 3y agoYeah, it's 6% for the US. Definitely questionable. But it doesn't matter as much if you're looking at change over time.
- sugarkjube 3y agoI wouldnt trust this data that much. I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india. This seems to match this survey. My 2 cts, probably this just shows countries where schools prefer to use github over their own infrastructure, or else students being creative in sharing their solutions outside of school.
- Thorrez 3y agoIn my college in the US students also had to create Github accounts and turn in assignments there (in private repositories).
- HexDecOctBin 3y agoYes, but Americans are normal people and thus not suspicious. Those Indians however, something's up with them, can't you just feel it? They haven't even invented schools yet (British forgot to teach them how to do that), so why would they have assignments? Very shady, if you ask me.
- valval 3y agoDo you think there's any correlation between "fastest-growing for software development" and "number of people who do software development exercises"?
- tokai 3y agoIt would be wrong to assume that there is a correlation without proof.
- malfist 3y ago"Fast growing" alone doesn't mean a whole lot. Take for example, you have a million engineers in the UK, you have 100 in Pakistan. Year after year, you add 100 more engineers in Pakistan, and 100,000 in the UK. Pakistan is the "fastest growing" in this situation year after year after year, but it will never catch up with the UK.
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- chromaton 3y agoBy the metrics on this page, 6% of the US population has a GitHub account. Seems a bit high to me.
- lm28469 3y agovpns, multi account, &c.
- codexb 3y agoI have a personal account and 2 separate work accounts, so I think you could easily divide that number by 2 or 3
- smitty1110 3y agoI mean, I have three right now: Personal, corporate, and one for a specific contract. The number may jump to 4 later this year.
- prakhar897 3y agoMy first commits were done by my friend to get free T-shirt from Hacktoberfest. So, filtering out accounts with less than 3 stars might be a decent criteria.
- ARandomerDude 3y agoAh yes, the old “percent growth” joke. All of these are growth by one unit: 0 t0 1: infinite % growth 1 to 2: 100% growth 10 to 11: 10% 100 to 101: 1% “Fastest growing” often means “smallest starting number.”
- golly_ned 3y ago568,145 is not a small starting number.
- hinkley 3y agoThere's an old aphorism about not comparing percentages and/or numbers with different denominators. It could be YouTube's algorithm making me think there's a trend where none exists, but it feels like this point is being brought up in more refutations of late, which I take as a good sign of some modicum of sanity returning.
- codexb 3y ago> For developers around the world, a busy GitHub profile is one of the best ways to land a programming job. I've been programming for 20 years and very little of that shows up on any public or private github repo.
- toastedwedge 3y agoAnecdata: My experience when asking others around my region (mid-southern US, not quite Midwest) is that no one ever looks at that kind of thing. If they do look, they look at the projects being made and how your methodology / way of thinking handles a situation, not how active the profile is.
- throwhqck 3y agoI hate sites like this that hack back button
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- mvavassori 3y agothird-world profession ... i should have gone into hardware
- guerrilla 3y agoNigeria is beating Kenya? So much so that the latter isn't even on the short list... what? This is very surprising.