The popular social coding platform GitHub announced that it hosts more than 100 million repositories, a huge milestone for the web-based hosting service
The platform also details some information about its users, which counts to 31 million developers that have collectively created over 1.1 billion contributions across both closed and open-source projects. GitHub hosts the majority of major open-source projects, including WordPress, Drupal, and TensorFlow.
According to GitHub, the most popular project of 2018 was Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform text editor. This is followed by React Native, TensorFlow, Angular, and Azure’s documentation which occupied positions two-to-five.
Much of GitHub’s users are located outside the U.S., where the company is based.
"More repositories are coming from Asia than anywhere else in the world," said GitHub.
"More specifically, repository creation has picked up across Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. While there’s an increase in repositories from developed countries, we’re seeing the same trend in emerging countries as new tech communities grow and new technologies becoming more accessible."
For the fastest growing market by the total number of repositories created, is Algeria, followed by El Salvador, Egypt, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
And as for the fastest growing countries by open source repositories created, is Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria.
GitHub was launched in 2008, with a small group of developers looking to solve a specific problem. That year, it only hosted 33,000 repositories.
In just 10 years, the platform has grown and became a global open source community. To put 100 million repositories in a better perspective, according to GitHub, it's an average of 1.6 repositories created every second.
"After 10 years and 100 million repositories, we’re only just getting started," said GitHub announcing the achievement.
"Thanks to our users, we’re building something bigger than any single repository or project—a community that’s pushing software forward in tangible ways. So thank you for building with us now and in the years to come. We can’t wait to see what you build together in the next 100 million."
Previously, Microsoft in acquiring GitHub posed a lot of questions, especially because the company was known as a long opposing force of open source. But since Satya Nadella became its CEO, Microsoft's strong stance against open source started to fade. This can be seen with GitHub reaching its 100 million milestone, with Microsoft's text editor as the most popular.
This is proving that the acquisition or Microsoft can't dampen GitHub's appeal to developers.