Python contributors on GitHub: year-over-year growth
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Global · September 2024 – August 2025
Python contributors on GitHub: year-over-year growth was 48.8% in September 2024 – August 2025 (GitHub).
- Publisher
- GitHub
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- The elephant in the room: Typescript is the new #1
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Python also continued to grow rapidly, adding roughly 850,000 contributors (+48.78% YoY), while JavaScript grew more slowly (+24.79%, ~427,000 contributors).
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GitHub. (2025). What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/what-the-fastest-growing-tools-reveal-about-how-software-is-being-built/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5ZRDFDVRN25PKMZSN0PXJXRVAC
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- MLA
- GitHub. "What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built." 2025, https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/what-the-fastest-growing-tools-reveal-about-how-software-is-being-built/. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5ZRDFDVRN25PKMZSN0PXJXRVAC.
- Chicago
- GitHub. "What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built." 2025. https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/what-the-fastest-growing-tools-reveal-about-how-software-is-being-built/. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5ZRDFDVRN25PKMZSN0PXJXRVAC.
- BibTeX
- @misc{github2025githubjxrvac, author = {{GitHub}}, title = {What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5ZRDFDVRN25PKMZSN0PXJXRVAC}, note = {Original source: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/what-the-fastest-growing-tools-reveal-about-how-software-is-being-built/. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- GitHub · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Research and companies
- Report
- What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- The elephant in the room: Typescript is the new #1
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:evidence-check-v1:2026-09-26
- Checked on
- 26 September 2026
- Last revision
- 26 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_5ZRDFDVRN25PKMZSN0PXJXRVAC