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GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users

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I'm really impressed how Microsoft improved Github in the past few years. Github was basically at a feature standstill, and had terrible availability after all of its internal scandals. That ended when Microsoft bought it and turned it into a powerhouse, and integrated everything together.

Microsoft from 20 years ago and Microsoft now seems like a completely different company.

No. It's a massive corp. MS is not a singular entity. GitHub does not describe MS the same as Minecraft doesn't describe Azure. Sometimes they get it right because of the particular leadership at that company.

I moved to Gitlab after someone reported a part of my code as transphobic (containing a deep link to the Troon Android App) and a repo of mine was deleted. They have become too silly with the PC stuff.

Why would that be considered transphobic?

Are there 90M programmers?

At least at my company, it’s normal to have technical writers, project managers, etc. have GitHub accounts as well. I could easily see them getting to 90M active users, regardless of how many programmers there are.

On my team, 30% of the Github users are not programmers. Product managers, testers, designers all use Github project management and create issues for developers.

I had a Github account for years even when the only programming I could do was write “hello world” in Javascript

Putting that in perspective, GitHub has around 1% of the global population as an active user.

The usual estimate is that there are about 20-25M programmers worldwide. So probably not.

No. Usual estimate is ~20M. High end is usually ~23M. It doesn't grow that fast.

What do they consider “active”?

If they could only fix the constant outages

For reference: https://www.githubstatus.com/history?page=1

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