This article is reproduced from IT Home. On the afternoon of March 18, Tencent released the 2020 "Tencent R&D Big Data Report" today, which disclosed data on Tencent's R&D investment, R&D efficiency, and open source collaboration in 2020. The report shows that in 2020, Tencent's R&D personnel accounted for 68% of the company's total headcount, an increase of 16% compared to 2019.
In 2020, Tencent added more than 4,000 R&D projects, a year-on-year increase of 22%; new codes exceeded 2 billion lines, a year-on-year increase of 67%.
In 2020, the code review coverage rate will reach 70%, with an average reviewer participating 90 times and reviewing an average of 293 lines of code each time. At the same time, 70% of Tencent's technology leaders continue to output codes. In 2020, the average output per person will be 32,000 rows. 54% of technical experts at level 12 and above devote themselves to coding, and output more than 30,000 lines of code per capita.
C++ is Tencent's most popular programming language. With the further development of cloud computing and microservices-related technologies, the use of Go language has increased the fastest, and it has surpassed JavaScript to become Tencent's second most popular programming language. At the same time, TypeScript has become the second fastest growing language in 2020 with its excellent architecture design and high compatibility, and it is also the most potential front-end language.
In addition, Tencent also said that it has promoted the collaborative integration of multiple tool platforms such as the code management platform Worker Bee, the agile R&D collaboration platform TAPD, the intelligent continuous integration platform Tencent CI (Blue Shield), the integrated research efficiency portal Zhiyan, and the enterprise-level R&D cloud platform. .
Since Tencent established its technical committee in 2018, open source collaboration has become a key word for Tencent in terms of technological development. In 2020, Tencent's internal open source code base has added more than 57,000 new ones, an increase of 29% over 2019.
In the early days of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Tencent people across the country delivered 90,000 demand through remote collaboration, and delivered many new projects to help the epidemic, such as various epidemic service applets to help people more conveniently obtain epidemic information and services, and Help enterprises to collaborate remotely through products such as Tencent Meetings, Enterprise WeChat, Tencent Documents, etc.