India has emerged as GitHub’s fastest growing developer hub with 21.9 million users and raced past the United States to become the biggest base of open-source contributors. This is up from company's earlier figure of 18 million developers in April 2025.
India now has the largest public and open-source contributor base in the world, a reflection of the country’s growing developer base and its increasing role in open-source software (OSS) adoption.
Further, India alone added more than five million developers this year (over 14 percent of all new accounts) and is on track to account for one in every three new developers on Microsoft-owned GitHub by 2030.
GitHub’s estimates suggest that India will reach 57.5 million developers by 2030. The United States will have the second largest developer community, followed by Brazil, Japan and the United Kingdom in the next five years.
“India’s rise as a global technology leader is undeniable, driven by its surging developer community and the new possibilities of agentic AI,” said Kyle Daigle, Chief Operating Officer at GitHub.
“From students to open-source maintainers to the enterprise, developers in India are joining GitHub at a record pace and using AI to turn ideas into impact faster than ever”, he said.
Globally, GitHub has over 180 million developers and it aims to reach 1 billion developers by 2030.
Agent HQ
The developer platform shared these findings at GitHub Universe 2025, its annual developer conference in San Francisco. It also unveiled Agent HQ, an open ecosystem where artificial intelligence (AI) agents can coexist and collaborate on a single platform.
In the coming months, coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and others will become available directly within GitHub, accessible to developers through a paid GitHub Copilot subscription.
TypeScript vs Python
Separately, GitHub said that TypeScript has overtaken Python as the top programming language as developers are shifting towards typed languages that improve agent-assisted coding.
GitHub, acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, has been working on infusing AI across every step of the developer lifecycle. In the past, this has included a code completion tool, Copilot, in 2022, Copilot Chat for natural language-powered coding in 2023 and an AI developer environment, GitHub Copilot Workspace, in April 2024.
With the platform becoming increasingly important to Microsoft's broader strategy to woo developers, the software giant has also moved it closer to its CoreAI unit, headed by former Meta executive Jay Parikh.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke also announced plans to step down in August 2025, with the rest of GitHub’s leadership team reporting directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team.
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