BENGALURU: India will overtake the US as the largest developer base on Microsoft-code hosting platform GitHub by 2027.
“India is a place where the momentum around developers and development is unbelievable. Today, as we speak, India is number two only next to the US in terms of the total number of developers on GitHub, and it’s going to cross in 2027.It’s going to be the place where most developers are going to be,” said Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, while addressing developers in Bengaluru on Thursday. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.
India has added nearly 4 million developers on GitHub in the last two years, taking the tally to over 13 million as of 2023. However, the US continues to have the largest developer base globally with over 20 million developers.
Nadella praised Indian developers for embracing and leading the AI tectonic shift. “Even with AI projects, I was stunned when I saw that the number of genAI projects on GitHub with Indian contributors is next to the US. So, it’s just awesome to see the human capital of this country embrace this new platform and effectively lead the new platform shift,” he said.
The 2023 edition of GitHub’s State of the Octoverse report showed that genAI is driving a significant and global spike in individual contributors to genAI projects with 148% year-on-year growth – and a 248% year-on-year increase in the total number of genAI projects. The US, India, and Japan are leading the way among developer communities along with other regions.
Nadella said that he is excited to launch Code Without Barriers in India to help 75,000 women developers by 2024. Code Without Barriers helps close the gender gap in the cloud, AI, and digital technology sectors. The programme provides a platform to enable female developers and other technical talent to contribute towards inclusive economic growth.
Nadella said picking up new skills is the currency of today. “So, this is a great time to be in that combination of a hardware-software engineer, where you’re thinking about system architecture,” he said. “One of the things that I tell our developers in Microsoft is to be super ambitious today about what they can build with the best models knowing that in 18 months’ time, it’s going to be 1/100th the cost of what it is today. And that’s an empowering thing. There’s no other input in the world that has this type of price characteristic,” he added.
Nadella said American inventors Vannevar Bush and Douglas Engelbart tried to get computers to understand us versus us trying to understand computers. “We finally may be there with this breakthrough of natural language or models that understand natural language, computers that can hold a conversation, because, after all, a conversational interface is ultimately the easiest natural user interface. The fact that it can be multimodal – text, images video in and out. All of that, I think, allows us to have a very different approach to user experience.”
“India is a place where the momentum around developers and development is unbelievable. Today, as we speak, India is number two only next to the US in terms of the total number of developers on GitHub, and it’s going to cross in 2027.It’s going to be the place where most developers are going to be,” said Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, while addressing developers in Bengaluru on Thursday. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.
India has added nearly 4 million developers on GitHub in the last two years, taking the tally to over 13 million as of 2023. However, the US continues to have the largest developer base globally with over 20 million developers.
Nadella praised Indian developers for embracing and leading the AI tectonic shift. “Even with AI projects, I was stunned when I saw that the number of genAI projects on GitHub with Indian contributors is next to the US. So, it’s just awesome to see the human capital of this country embrace this new platform and effectively lead the new platform shift,” he said.
The 2023 edition of GitHub’s State of the Octoverse report showed that genAI is driving a significant and global spike in individual contributors to genAI projects with 148% year-on-year growth – and a 248% year-on-year increase in the total number of genAI projects. The US, India, and Japan are leading the way among developer communities along with other regions.
Nadella said that he is excited to launch Code Without Barriers in India to help 75,000 women developers by 2024. Code Without Barriers helps close the gender gap in the cloud, AI, and digital technology sectors. The programme provides a platform to enable female developers and other technical talent to contribute towards inclusive economic growth.
Nadella said picking up new skills is the currency of today. “So, this is a great time to be in that combination of a hardware-software engineer, where you’re thinking about system architecture,” he said. “One of the things that I tell our developers in Microsoft is to be super ambitious today about what they can build with the best models knowing that in 18 months’ time, it’s going to be 1/100th the cost of what it is today. And that’s an empowering thing. There’s no other input in the world that has this type of price characteristic,” he added.
Nadella said American inventors Vannevar Bush and Douglas Engelbart tried to get computers to understand us versus us trying to understand computers. “We finally may be there with this breakthrough of natural language or models that understand natural language, computers that can hold a conversation, because, after all, a conversational interface is ultimately the easiest natural user interface. The fact that it can be multimodal – text, images video in and out. All of that, I think, allows us to have a very different approach to user experience.”