Overview
- GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 reports 180M+ developers, 630M projects added to a record high after +121M this year, 1.12B contributions up 13% year over year, and 4.3M+ AI repositories nearly doubling since 2023.
- India is projected to surpass the U.S. in developer count by 2030 with about 57.5M developers versus 54.7M in the U.S., with APAC growth linked to government skilling and AI‑assisted local‑language tools.
- GitHub announced Agent HQ to let external coding agents plug into its ecosystem, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and Cognition committing integrations during the rollout.
- Microsoft made Azure MCP Server generally available to connect agents securely to Azure services through the Model Context Protocol, bringing natural‑language operations into IDEs and MCP‑compatible clients.
- AI has become routine in developer workflows as Copilot surpasses 20M users, is used by 90% of the Fortune 100, and is tried by roughly 80% of new GitHub users in their first week, while TypeScript became GitHub’s top language in August.