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Todo o mundo Assessing the future of open source, GitHub said this week that it expects the number of software developers using its platform, currently 56 million, to increase to 100 million in four years.
In the report The State of the Octoverse, released by GitHub on December 2, the popular code-sharing site also noted that more than 60 million repositories and more than 1.9 billion contributions were added last year. GitHub noted that much of the growth is taking place outside the United States, with 66% of active users now based outside North America.
The percentage of open source contributors in the United States dropped to 22.7%, from 30.4% in 2015. Contributions come from a wider range of countries, the report indicates, with China accounting for 9.76% and India 5.2%. The report continues to note:
“As we look to the future of open source and reach 100 million developers in 2025, we project the open source contributions of the United States to fall and stabilize at 16.4%, with strong contributions from China (13.3%) and the India (7.9 %), and growth in South America and Africa, namely Brazil (3%) and Nigeria (1.5%). "
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