GitHub published statistics for 2022 and presented Grants program to open projects

github published report with the analysis of statistics for 2022. Main trends:

  • In 2022, 85.7 million new repositories were created (in 2021 – 61 million, for 2020 – 60 million), more than 227 million PULL requesting were accepted and 31 million notifications of problems (Issue) were closed. In GitHub Actions, 263 million automated works were performed for the year. The total number of repositories has reached 339 million.
  • The total contribution of participants to all projects is estimated at 3.5 billion actions (commits, Issue, Pull, questioning, discussions, reviews, etc.). In 2022, 413 million such actions were performed.
  • The GitHub audience for a year increased by 20.5 million users and reached 94 million (last year it was 73 million, a year -off one, 56 million, three years ago – 41 million).
  • The largest number of new developers connected to GitHub from the USA, India (32.4%), China (15.6%), Brazil (11.6%), Russia (7.3%), Indonesia (7.3%), Great Britain (6.1%), Germany (5.3%), Japan (5.2%), France (4.7%) and Canada (4.6%).
  • JavaScript remains the most popular language on Github. The second place is Python, the third – Java. Of the languages ​​for which there is a decline in popularity PHP, which lost 6th place in the rating of the language C ++.


  • of the most actively gaining popularity of languages ​​are called:
    HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) – project growth of 56.1%, Rust (50.5%), TyPescript (37.8%), LUA (34.2%), GO (28.3%), Shell (27.7%), MakeFile (23.7%), C (23.5%), Kotlin (22.9%), Python (22.5%).
  • The number of participants lead the repositories:


  • In terms of connecting to the development of new participants, repositories lead:


  • by the degree of involvement of beginners who have committed the first commander, the leaders lead the repositories:


Additionally github presented The initiative github accelerator , in which he intends to pay 20 grants to finance open projects who want to develop their projects in full working hours. The exchange of a grant, which implies financing work within 10 weeks, is 20 thousand dollars. Grant owners will be selected from the general list of applications by the expert council, which included the leaders of companies involved in the development of open software.

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