GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke praises India’s fastest-growing developer community and says “the rise to global tech giant is…”

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke praised India as having “the fastest growing developer population” among countries. In a post published on social media platform

“Of course, I have to show some love to India. Now home to the fastest-growing developer base on the planet, India’s rise as a global tech giant is unstoppable,” Domke wrote.

The post has an infographic that states that India contributes $5.2 billion to all projects on GitHub and will create 108 million new repositories by 2024. While not specified, he likely used data from the GitHub user base to make the post.

“Indian developers are taking it one step further: they are increasingly using AI to build AI. India has the second-highest number of contributors to publicly generated AI projects. This makes the next great AI multinational more likely Born on the African continent,” he added.

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GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. According to an ANI report, the company noted the growth of the Indian market in a recent report titled ‘Octoverse’.

The Octoverse report predicts that by 2028, India, along with Africa and Latin America, will have the largest number of GitHub developers in the world. It also added that the number of contributions to generating AI projects on GitHub surged by 59% and the number of projects increased by 98% in 2024, mentioning India as a major contributor to its projects.

The number of developers on GitHub in India is expected to surpass that of the United States by 2028, the report added, adding that the country has the fastest-growing developer community.

“India has prioritized open source software and launched the National Education Policy 2020, requiring schools to include coding and artificial intelligence in students’ curricula. Notably, a recent study by learning platform Udemy found GitHub to be one of the most in-demand skills In India, grammar skills are comparable to English grammar skills,” the company added in the report, highlighting the potential the country has due to various government-run schemes.

According to GitHub, contributions from generative AI projects on its platform increased by 95% year-on-year, indicating the company’s impressive business growth in the country.