GitHub released a report analyzing the statistics for 2022. Key trends:
- In 2022, 85.7 million new repositories were created (compared to 61 million in 2021 and 60 million in 2020), over 227 million pull requests were accepted, and 31 million issue notifications were closed. A total of 263 million automated jobs were performed in GitHub Actions over the year. The total number of repositories reached 339 million.
- The overall contribution of participants to all projects is estimated at 3.5 billion actions (commits, issues, pull requests, discussions, reviews, etc.). A total of 413 million such actions were performed in 2022.
- The GitHub audience grew by 20.5 million users over the year, reaching 94 million (up from 73 million last year, 56 million the year before that, and 41 million three years ago).
- The highest number of new developers connecting to GitHub came from the USA, India (32.4%), China (15.6%), Brazil (11.6%), Russia (7.3%), Indonesia (7.3%), the UK (6.1%), Germany (5.3%), Japan (5.2%), France (4.7%), and Canada (4.6%).
- JavaScript remains the most popular language on GitHub. Python ranks second, and Java is third. PHP has seen a decline in popularity, dropping to sixth place behind C++.
- The most rapidly growing languages include: HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) — a project increase of 56.1%, Rust (50.5%), TypeScript (37.8%), Lua (34.2%), Go (28.3%), Shell (27.7%), Makefile (23.7%), C (23.5%), Kotlin (22.9%), and Python (22.5%).
- In terms of participants, the leading repositories are:
- In terms of new participants joining the development, the leading repositories are:
- In terms of engagement of newcomers making their first commit, the leading repositories are:
Additionally, GitHub has introduced the GitHub Accelerator initiative, under which it plans to award 20 grants to fund developers of open projects who wish to develop their projects full-time. The grant amount, which covers work for 10 weeks, is $20,000. Grant recipients will be chosen from a pool of applications by an expert council of company leaders involved in open-source software development.
In addition, the M12 GitHub Fund has been launched, planning to invest $10 million in startups that are developing open projects hosted on GitHub (for comparison, the recently announced Mozilla venture fund intends to invest $35 million). The first project to receive funding is CodeSee, which is developing a platform for visual codebase analysis.
Source: opennet.ru
