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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by javajosh on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:25PM (#33339459)
Are there 90M programmers?
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by woodruffw on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:44PM (#33339575)
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.
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by senttoschool on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:19AM (#33340101)
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.
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by ianschmitz on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:01AM (#33340307)
What do they consider “active”?
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by spaceman_2020 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:11AM (#33340696)
I had a Github account for years even when the only programming I could do was write “hello world” in Javascript
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by Gigachad on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:21AM (#33341124)
Putting that in perspective, GitHub has around 1% of the global population as an active user.
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by origin_path on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @08:09AM (#33342472)
The usual estimate is that there are about 20-25M programmers worldwide. So probably not.
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Re:GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by DannyBee on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:34AM (#33343461)
No. Usual estimate is ~20M. High end is usually ~23M. It doesn't grow that fast.
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