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I 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

I 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 ago
In my college in the US students also had to create Github accounts and turn in assignments there (in private repositories).
- HexDecOctBin 3y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
Do you think there's any correlation between "fastest-growing for software development" and "number of people who do software development exercises"?
- tokai 3y ago
  It 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.
  - lgas 3y ago
    > but it will never catch up with the UK Well, overpopulation would balance the scales eventually.
- marcellus23 3y ago
  That assumes that the only way to do software development exercises is via public GitHub repos.
welder 3y ago
I wonder how good GitHub is at detecting spam/fake accounts... from my experience those type of accounts are created from some of the countries GitHub says are increasing. Also there's been an increase in ChatGPT spam comments on GitHub.[0] The goal seems to be faking account activity to make the accounts seem legit, so I wouldn't trust active user numbers too much. [0]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117#discussioncomment-7987918 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117#discussi...
wing-_-nuts 3y ago
I would personally like to see LOC / capita. As much as it's not a good metric to measure dev productivity I think it would be useful here to show real engagement
- amelius 3y ago
  I'd like to see the median of LOC over people per country, and higher quantiles.

Thorrez 3y ago

In my college in the US students also had to create Github accounts and turn in assignments there (in private repositories).

HexDecOctBin 3y ago
Yes, 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 ago

Do you think there's any correlation between "fastest-growing for software development" and "number of people who do software development exercises"?

tokai 3y ago
It 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.
- lgas 3y ago
  > but it will never catch up with the UK Well, overpopulation would balance the scales eventually.
marcellus23 3y ago
That assumes that the only way to do software development exercises is via public GitHub repos.

welder 3y ago

I wonder how good GitHub is at detecting spam/fake accounts... from my experience those type of accounts are created from some of the countries GitHub says are increasing. Also there's been an increase in ChatGPT spam comments on GitHub.[0] The goal seems to be faking account activity to make the accounts seem legit, so I wouldn't trust active user numbers too much. [0]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117#discussioncomment-7987918 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117#discussi...

wing-_-nuts 3y ago

I would personally like to see LOC / capita. As much as it's not a good metric to measure dev productivity I think it would be useful here to show real engagement

amelius 3y ago
I'd like to see the median of LOC over people per country, and higher quantiles.