A remarkable milestone has been reached – GitHub, the code-hosting platform, is proudly celebrating its success as it announces that over 100 million developers have joined its community!
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Over the past decade, GitHub’s popularity has skyrocketed – from 3 million users to 28 million when Microsoft acquired it for $7.5 billion five years ago, and to 90+ million just three months ago! This is a truly remarkable achievement that demonstrates its incredible growth potential over time.
Since its launch in 2008, GitHub has grown steadily and become the preferred hosting service for countless open source and proprietary software projects. It allows developers to securely collaborate on code bases from any location or device with ease, making it the leading developer collaboration tool.
Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub can be seen as a bridge to the open source software community, which has been met with skepticism in the past. In addition, Microsoft is using data and artificial intelligence from GitHub with its new program called “Copilot.” But the most important thing for now is that these paid programs contribute an impressive $1 billion per year to Microsoft’s coffers!
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During the 2019 keynote, former CEO Nat Friedman noted that the company aimed to have 100 million developers using its platform by 2025. The amazing thing is, they achieved this goal a full two years ahead of schedule!
Information source: techcrunch.com
