A New Developer Joins GitHub Every Second as AI Pushes TypeScript to #1
2025 has truly become a milestone year for software development. According to this year’s GitHub Octoverse report, the global developer community is expanding faster than ever. The biggest headline? Every single second, more than one new developer joins GitHub. That means over 36 million new developers came on board in just one year. With this, GitHub now hosts more than 180 million developers working, learning, and building together.
This massive growth is not happening randomly. It reflects how AI tools, coding agents, and typed languages are reshaping the future of programming. The year 2025 marks one of the biggest shifts in developer behaviour and programming language preference in more than a decade.
AI Pushes New Waves of Developers into the Community
One major reason behind this growth is the release of GitHub Copilot Free in late 2024. When GitHub made AI coding assistance free for developers, it completely changed the entry point into programming. Suddenly, learning to code became easier, faster, and more accessible to students, hobbyists, and professionals.
This caused a major jump in sign-ups, even higher than GitHub had predicted. But the growth wasn’t just in sign-ups. Developer activity reached new heights:
* 230+ new repositories created every minute
* 43.2 million pull requests merged each month : (a 23% increase year over year)
* Almost 1 billion commits pushed in 2025 : (up by 25.1% from last year)
* A record-breaking 100 million commits in August alone
These numbers show that developers are not only joining GitHub—they are actively building, collaborating, and shipping software faster than ever, helped by AI tools that speed up coding and reduce repetitive work.
TypeScript Becomes the #1 Programming Language
One of the most surprising and significant insights from Octoverse 2025 is the shift in programming language trends. For the first time ever:
TypeScript overtook both Python and JavaScript in August 2025
This is the first major language ranking shift in more than 10 years, and it tells a clear story:
developers now prefer languages that offer type safety, strong tooling, and better AI compatibility.
With AI code generation becoming normal, typed languages help developers catch errors early and work more confidently with large codebases. TypeScript fits perfectly into this requirement.
Python continues to be strong, especially for AI and data science, but TypeScript’s rise shows how the modern web and large-scale applications are evolving.
A Truly Global Expansion—With India Leading the Way
Octoverse 2025 also highlights how global the developer community has become. India, in particular, is playing a key role in this transformation.
* India added more than 5 million new developers this year alone.
* That accounts for 14% of all new GitHub accounts worldwide.
* By 2030, India is expected to contribute one out of every three new developers on GitHub.
This growth shows the increasing interest among Indian students and professionals to build careers in tech, supported by accessible AI tools, better learning opportunities, and a growing digital economy.
What These Trends Mean for the Future
The 2025 Octoverse clearly shows that we’ve entered a new era of software development. AI is not just a tool—it has become a partner in coding. Developers are building faster, learning quicker, and choosing languages that support intelligent tooling.
TypeScript rising to the #1 spot, millions of new developers joining every month, and India’s rapidly growing tech talent all point to one truth:
The future of coding is global, AI-powered, and faster than ever before.