ISLAMABAD – Right around this time every year, GitHub, the world’s leadingsoftware development and collaboration platform, releases a report calledThe State of the Octoverse. The report explains the open source activitythat has been taking place on in the world over the past 12 months.
The main purpose behind publishing this report is to encourage open sourceculture and to highlight the importance of contributing to open sourceprojects, especially in developing countries.
This year, Pakistan has been ranked 4th in terms of percentage growth ofopen source projects on GitHub, year on year.
Pakistan’s open source projects have grown a staggering 41% over lastyear’s number, and this has earned it a place among countries like Greece,and Saudi Arabia which recorded 41% themselves as well. Nigeria leads therankings with a very impressive 59% followed by Iran and Kenya at 44% andIndonesia at 42%.
Furthermore, Pakistan is also among the fastest growing regions bypercentage increase in contributors with a 71% increase. This is an amazingfeat for Pakistan and is indicative of the flourishing technology culturein the country, for example Airlift’s $12 million series A fundinglink.
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The report also included some other important statistics, like fastestgrowing technologies and top trending open source projects. Anotherimportant statistic given in the report is the popularity of programminglanguages, which can help budding programmers decide which language theywant to master.
This year, Python overtook Java to become the second most popular languageto be used in open source projects.
This might be down to the increasing popularity of machine learningprojects, which are mostly built using Python. Meanwhile, JavaScriptretains its place in the top spot, which it has kept ever since the reportfirst came out in 2014.
