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The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub
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#23These 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?
I end up with a new account at every gig I work. I don't even remember them all. Maybe this is bad practice on my part, and I should be shutting them down when a job ends, but I just like the separation of personal vs. work accounts.
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#24I 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.
In my college in the US students also had to create Github accounts and turn in assignments there (in private repositories).
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#25These 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?
I'd be very skeptical even if it was inactive accounts as well. For active accounts it has to be a fraction of a percentage.
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#26I 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.
Do you think there's any correlation between "fastest-growing for software development" and "number of people who do software development exercises"?
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#27These 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?
Doesn'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).
People who aren't programmers have github accounts.
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#28I 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.
Do you think there's any correlation between "fastest-growing for software development" and "number of people who do software development exercises"?
It would be wrong to assume that there is a correlation without proof.
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#29These 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?
Sounds about right.
Remember, for most starting developers (which is almost all developers), a GitHub account is an essential part of their job search, just like having a LinkedIn account.
And then at a lot of companies you get a separate GitHub account because companies do not really want to deal with your personal account, they want to manage it to enforce 2fa, to be able to disable it when you leave (as if it mattered), and so on.
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#30These 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?
I had the same suspicion from Brazil data. It says ~4,5 million accounts. Which is ~2% of Brazil’s population.
But you have take into account that ~37% of households in Brazil have no internet access or computer.
I would guess that less than 2% of Brazilian population even knows what GitHub is.