Have a read of GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report.
There’s some fascinating data in there!
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180M+ developers work and build on GitHub.
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Nearly 80% of developers new to GitHub use Copilot in their first week.
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630M total projects on GitHub, +121M in 2025, the biggest year yet.
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1.12B contributions to public and open source repositories, +13% year-over-year.
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4.3M+ AI-related repositories, nearby double since 2023.
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TypeScript and Python are the two most used languages in 2025, signaling a shift driven by AI preferences.
What’s your take? Did anything surprise you? Are you part of any of those statistics?