GitHub updated its online data and insights platform that provides info on local and worldwide impact of developers letting using look their own software development trends.
Programming languages are famous topic in software development world and tool provides insight into language by country.
Javascript has highest ranked programming language based on number of unique developers who uploaded code followed by Shell and Python.
The GitHub innovation Graph was updated with Q1 2024 data adding to data troves that started in Q1 2020. The company launched the tool in 2023 with purpose of letting anyone researchers policymakers developers tp access data.
- Over 22,233,000 American developers and 1220000 American organization are building on GitHub.
- The US top three collaborators were UK Canada and Germany
- American developers uploaded code to GitHub over 27.2 million times
- American developers and organization owned more than 60.5 million repositories on GitHub.
One research analyze the impact of ChatGPT on velocity of software development finding that availability of ChatGPT.
- Increase the number of Git pushes per 100,000 inhabitants of each country
- Had positive correlation with number of repositories and developers per 100,000 inhabitants
- High level languages like Javascript, Python impact on domain specific languages like SQL and HTML
One study uses Graph data to show how the proliferation of ChatGPT across the world ahs start to enhance developer engagement across various programming languages/