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Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by welder »

sugarkjube wrote: post #18

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.

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#discussi...

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by Vinnl »

elashri wrote: post #9
timonoko wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This 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.

Oh huh wow, why do I have 85 followers on GitHub? What do you even see if you "follow" someone?

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by malfist »

valval wrote: post #26
sugarkjube wrote: post #18

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.

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

"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.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by em-bee »

codingdave wrote: post #23
Oarch wrote: post #3

These 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.

i actually think it is good practice. if there is any issue with the gig, they eg try to force you to hand over access to the account, or someone is breaking into your github account then you don't expose all your other work.

there may be an issue with github TOS not allowing more than one free account per person though. i don't know if that is still the case, but then i would get a paid account for each paid gig and just add it to the bill.

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by chromaton »

davstr1 wrote: post #2

Someone 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/dev...

  developers 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%

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by astrea »

codingdave wrote: post #23
Oarch wrote: post #3

These 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.

This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by sumtechguy »

astrea wrote: post #37
codingdave wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?

Pretty sure you can have private repos with github?

Re: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

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Post by dukeyukey »

astrea wrote: post #37
codingdave wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?

Private repos. Even my personal stuff is private by default.
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