ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has been ranked among the top 10 countries that showedthe fastest growth in open-source coding around the world. An increasingamount of Pakistani developers have joined the GitHub community this yearand are now some of the community’s biggest contributors.
GitHub is a worldwide community of developers that share their code online.Last year, 24 million developers from over 200 countries joined GitHub tocode better and build bigger.5th Highest Growth in Open Source Projects
According to GitHub’s Octoverse 2019 survey, Pakistan was ranked as one ofthe top 10 countries to show the fastest growth in open-source softwaredevelopment.
The fastest-growing nation turned out to be Nigeria with Iran, Kenya, andIndonesia in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place respectively. Pakistan was tied withGreece and Saudia Arabia for the 5th position on the list as all threecountries contributed the same amount.Total Number of Contributors
In terms of total contributors (developers that share their codes atGitHub), Pakistan was ranked in 9th place. This shows that Pakistan has agrowing number of software developers that make significant contributionsto open-source software around the world.
This ranking also puts Pakistan on the open-source radar thanks to itsincreasing software development input, highlighting the talent thatPakistan has in information technology.