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Fifteen years ago, in a mysterious bar, three code gods (Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett) got together, spent a weekend, built a project with Ruby on Rails, and embarked on a journey of The road to conferring the gods.
This project is GitHub!
Since its launch, GitHub has gradually grown into an important part of the open source community and has become the platform of choice for many developers. It offers many features including version control, issue tracking, collaboration tools, code review, and more. These features help to facilitate the development and sharing of open source software.
development path
Let's take a look at the development history of GitHub:
In April 2008, GitHub was established.
In 2009, GitHub received its first round of financing and began to attract the attention of developers.
In 2011, the number of GitHub users reached 1 million.
In 2012, GitHub was acquired by companies such as Microsoft and Amazon.
In 2014, GitHub launched the GitHub - Enterprise edition, offering private deployment options.
In 2015, GitHub launched the GitHub Desktop client, which is convenient for users to manage code bases.
In 2018, GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion.
In 2019, GitHub announced the launch of a free private warehouse, attracting more developers to use it.
In 2020, GitHub launched GitHub Actions, which provides CI/CD functions to facilitate continuous integration and deployment for users.
In 2021, GitHub announced the launch of GitHub Copilot, an artificial intelligence-based code assistance tool, which has received a lot of attention.
In 2022, the number of GitHub users will exceed 100 million.
Among them, the most important turning point was Microsoft's announcement that it had bought GitHub at a high price of $7.5 billion. At the time of the acquisition, the platform had only 28 million users.
In the past five years alone, GitHub has grown by leaps and bounds with more than 100 million users.
In a 2019 keynote speech, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said the company's goal was to reach 100 million developers by 2025.
And GitHub appears to have reached this planned milestone two years early.
God-like existence
From the perspective of country and region distribution, the number and growth rate of GitHub developer users in China and India are second only to the United States. In the 2021 Octoverse report, GitHub revealed that 7.55 million users are from China. Among the 20.5 million new GitHub users in 2022, nearly 3.2 million (15.6%) will come from China.
At the same time, the power of Indian developers cannot be underestimated.
In 2015, nearly one-third of developers on GitHub were from North America.
Today, the fastest growing region is not the United States, but Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. In India alone, more than 10 million developers use GitHub to build software. In Brazil, more than 3 million developers use GitHub.
Even if there is a wall, even if the access speed is slow to X, it will not stop us Chinese programmers from using GitHub.
There is also Gitee in China, but as far as I know, there are still very few users.
Now when everyone searches for open source software and code, the first reaction is to go to GitHub.
Thanks to GitHub, the open source code shared by the great gods on GitHub has directly saved countless time for us rookies.
Now GitHub is not only an open source code sharing platform, but also any project where multiple people collaborate in different places. I know of sharing cooking, sports tutorials, 996ICU, black materials from technology companies, etc., which can be described as all-encompassing.
As netizens say, GitHub is now a god-like existence. GitHub's vast knowledge and projects are always nourishing the vast number of programmer friends.
Regarding GitHub, the world's largest dating site for code farmers, what interesting projects are there, you can share them in the comment area!
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