Google might actually be the best friend for open-source software right now

Date:
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:38:20 +0000

Description:
Big techs commitment to open source software appears to be growing, with Google leading the way.

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Technology giants are now more committed than ever to open source software , with big tech contributions to GitHub up four-fold compared with six years ago, new research has claimed.

A report from Aiven found Google seems to be the key driver in the industrys commitment to open source, with monthly commits up 21% year-on-year as of
July 2022.

The research suggests that Google has overtaken Microsoft in its number of active GitHub contributors for the first time in around three years, with 4,643 contributors vs Microsofts 4,394, and furthermore, Google is expected
to overtake Microsoft in its number of monthly commits for the first time
ever in the coming half a year. Google open source

Despite incredible growth, Amazon still lags behind Google; which uses C++, Java, and C. Amazon uses the equally favorable Python, Java, and TypeScript languages. Microsoft - a longtime industry leader in open source - veers more towards its own Powershell and C# programming languages, with more than one-third of its open source software coders choosing one of these two.

Overall, the number of active Amazon, Microsoft, and Google contributors to GitHub has increased from 2,654 in May 2016 to 10,549 in the same period of 2022. Read more

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Aivens co-founder, Heikki Nousiainen, says that the companys research shows that the hyperscalers are contributing more resources to open source, which
he says is great news.

He continues: As a community, open source software needs this sort of commitment from big tech to ensure that important projects are maintained and that vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell dont happen again. More than this, its a better way to write clean, transparent, secure code.

Nousiainen believes that from his companys research, we can deduce a positive outlook for open source software. The continuing commitment to innovation should benefit us all, with large companies clearing the path for small businesses to follow. Check out the best laptops for programming



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