Times of Islamabad

Pakistan ranked among top 10 countries of the World in fastest growth in open source development

Pakistan ranked among top 10 countries of the World in fastest growth in open source development

According to GitHub’s Octoverse 2020 report, Pakistan has been ranked amongthe top 10 countries that showed the fastest growth in open-sourcedevelopment around the world.

GitHub is a worldwide community of developers that share their code online.This year, 56 million developers from over 200 countries joined GitHub tocode better, collaborate, and build bigger.——————————

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An increasing amount of Pakistani developers have joined the GitHubcommunity this year and are now some of the community’s biggestcontributors.

Pakistan recorded the 6th fastest growth in open-source softwaredevelopment at GitHub in 2020.——————————

During 2020, the percentage of Pakistani developers who joined GitHubreached 51.5%, an increase of 11.1% from the last year’s 41%.

The fastest-growing nation turned out to be Nigeria with Hong Kong, SaudiArabia, Bangladesh, and Egypt in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place respectively.

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*Read the Octoverse 2020 report in detail at GitHublink.*