GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-says-github-now-has-a-1b-arr-90m-active-users/

by mfiguiere • 4 years ago

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m00x• 4 years ago

I'm really impressed how Microsoft improved Github in the past few years. Github was basically at a feature standstill, and had terrible availability after all of its internal scandals. That ended when Microsoft bought it and turned it into a powerhouse, and integrated everything together.

Microsoft from 20 years ago and Microsoft now seems like a completely different company.

devwastaken• 4 years ago

No. It's a massive corp. MS is not a singular entity. GitHub does not describe MS the same as Minecraft doesn't describe Azure. Sometimes they get it right because of the particular leadership at that company.

mikefallen• 4 years ago

If they could only fix the constant outages

throwaway349902• 4 years ago

For reference: https://www.githubstatus.com/history?page=1

javajosh• 4 years ago

Are there 90M programmers?

woodruffw• 4 years ago

At least at my company, it’s normal to have technical writers, project managers, etc. have GitHub accounts as well. I could easily see them getting to 90M active users, regardless of how many programmers there are.

senttoschool• 4 years ago

On my team, 30% of the Github users are not programmers. Product managers, testers, designers all use Github project management and create issues for developers.

ianschmitz• 4 years ago

What do they consider “active”?

spaceman_2020• 4 years ago

I had a Github account for years even when the only programming I could do was write “hello world” in Javascript

Gigachad• 4 years ago

Putting that in perspective, GitHub has around 1% of the global population as an active user.

origin_path• 4 years ago

The usual estimate is that there are about 20-25M programmers worldwide. So probably not.

DannyBee• 4 years ago

No. Usual estimate is ~20M. High end is usually ~23M. It doesn't grow that fast.

jbirer• 4 years ago

I moved to Gitlab after someone reported a part of my code as transphobic (containing a deep link to the Troon Android App) and a repo of mine was deleted. They have become too silly with the PC stuff.

stuartjohnson12• 4 years ago

Why would that be considered transphobic?

GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users

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