Code-hosting platform GitHub has introduced that 100 million builders at the moment are utilizing the platform.
The determine represents a considerable hike on the three million customers it counted precisely 10 years in the past, the 28 million it claimed when Microsoft acquired it for $7.5 billion 5 years in the past, and the 90 million-plus it revealed simply three months in the past.
GitHub has come a great distance since its launch again in 2008, and now serves because the default internet hosting service for tens of millions of open supply and proprietary software program improvement initiatives, permitting builders to collaborate round shared codebases from disparate areas.
For Microsoft, GitHub serves to assist ingratiate it with software program improvement sphere, having initially handled open supply software program with greater than a little bit disdain, whereas it’s additionally utilizing GitHub and its related knowledge — considerably controversially — to develop a brand new AI-powered pair programmer known as Copilot. However maybe extra importantly for Microsoft, within the near-term at the least, is that the varied GitHub paid plans on provide now contribute round $1 billion yearly to its coffers.
Throughout a keynote again in 2019, former CEO Nat Friedman stated that the corporate was aiming for 100 million builders by 2025. So plainly it has hit that milestone two years forward of plan.
