In total, GitHub is home to open source projects written in 316 unique programming languages. Here are the most popular by number of pull requests in the last twelve months.
1,604,219
763,783
744,045
740,610
478,153
330,259
271,782
229,985
202,295
188,121
143,071
75,478
70,216
62,284
55,587
Standouts include JavaScript, C#, and Go who have seen almost doubled growth. Swift and TypeScript are up and coming with 3.5x growth.
There was a lot of public activity on GitHub over the last 12 months. To give you the full picture, here are the totals and stories of active users, repositories, organizations, and active issues in public projects on GitHub. Active means there was some activity within the last year, e.g. code commited, a comment created, a repository starred, or an issue opened. The queries and data that power these open source metrics are available to everyone, thanks to our partnership with Google BigQuery.
5.8M+ active users
Like @acabunoc, Lead Developer for Open Source Engagement at the Mozilla Foundation who is developing new ways to engage contributors on open source projects.
331k+ active organizations
Like the Dat project who are working openly to develop a peer to peer tool for distributing datasets in science, journalism and government.
Here are some of the most active Organizations and well-loved projects by the number of unique contributors (users who pushed code, opened or commented on an issue or PR), unique code reviewers (users who commented on the changed files), and most forks.
Earlier this year we released Reactions and it seems like you’ve given them an overwhelming
This one made us chuckle—here is the issue with most laugh reactions: chrislgarry/Apollo-11#3
This year GitHub grew by more than 5.2 million users and 303K organizations. We have more new students, developers, and businesses using GitHub than ever before.
2.8M+ created their first repo
Like this Comic Book Search Engine repo created by @katana171. She was one of our Patchwork Toronto attendees, and even though she was new to GitHub, she jumped in with both feet, and wasted no time building a useful and fun project that anyone can contribute to.
China +97% increase from last year
Indonesia +90% increase from last year
India +76% increase from last year
Russia +74% increase from last year
Brazil +64% increase from last year
Japan +52% increase from last year
With almost 80M total Pull Requests on GitHub, we know that 85% of all requests for change come from within organizations.
Alongside businesses using Organizations, the largest companies on planet Earth are adopting the GitHub workflow using GitHub Enterprise.
44% of FORTUNE 50 companies used GitHub Enterprise in 2016
50% of FORTUNE 10 companies used GitHub Enterprise in 2016
It’s not just technology companies either—from retailers to healthcare and financial services companies—GitHub Enterprise provides the security and easy management these types of businesses require with the same GitHub experience developers love.
26%
15%
8%
8%
6%
6%
6%
6%
5%
From chat applications to continuous integration services and project management tools, teams are integrating their favorite development tools with GitHub. Here are the top GitHub integrations that helped you and your team work better this past year.