India is expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said.
- After the US, India has the highest number of generative AI (artificial intelligence) projects (GenAI) on GitHub.
GitHub
- GitHub is a for-profit company that offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service. Essentially, it makes it a lot easier for individuals and teams to use Git for version control and collaboration.
- At a high level, GitHub is a website and cloud-based service that helps developers store and manage their code, as well as track and control changes to their code.
Git
- Git is a specific open-source version control system created by Linus Torvalds in 2005.
- Specifically, Git is a distributed version control system, which means that the entire codebase and history is available on every developer’s computer, which allows for easy branching and merging.
- Git helps you keep track of code changes.
