Andrew Nesbitt

Been doing some research into GitHub Sponsors the past few days.

Out of 27k accounts analysed:

~12k had at least one sponsor,
~2k had at least 10 sponsors,
~900 have more than 100 sponsors 78 more than 1000 (past or present)

About 10% of GitHub sponsor accounts are organizations, 90% individuals.

May 21, 2024 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threadAndrew NesbittMay 21, 2024

Primary programming languages of GitHub sponsors accounts, based on their featured repositories:

JavaScript: 10.57%
TypeScript: 10.26%
Python: 9.76%
PHP: 4.77%
C#: 4.39%
Go: 3.65%
Java: 3.56%
C++: 3.15%
Rust: 3.05%
C: 1.85%
HTML: 1.74%
Shell: 1.57%
Swift: 1.37%
Ruby: 1.33%
Kotlin: 1.29%
Dart: 1.02%
Jupyter Notebook: 0.64%
Vue: 0.64%
CSS: 0.6%
Lua: 0.51%
PowerShell: 0.38%
Elixir: 0.36%
R: 0.35%
Clojure: 0.33%
Scala: 0.25%

Show threadJake CarpenterMay 21, 2024
@andrewnez PHP 🤯
Show threadsteeznsonMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez Interesting to see Scala so low on the list. I interact with a lot of Scala tools working as a data engineer.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 22, 2024

@andrewnez

Kinda shocked to see Java doing so poorly!

Show threadDan Neuman 🇨🇦May 22, 2024

@futurebird @andrewnez The security issues on browsers is a real problem. I use it for Minecraft and it is constantly being updated. I can only assume for security reasons mostly since I rarely hear of improvements. It is no longer shipped with Apple products.

It being an essentially proprietary language (or at least the appearance of one) is another problem.

Show threadBen ButlerMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez A ton of people are going to point this out, but many PHP/C#, Java projects, etc. show up as JavaScript in GitHub.
Show threadBen ButlerMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez (If they are old-fashioned monoliths, which many of us still use/develop 🙂 ).
Show threadAndrew NesbittMay 22, 2024
@benfrog yep, need to do more in depth language scanning than just the “highest” counts realistically
Show threadAndrew NesbittMay 22, 2024
@benfrog I’ve got some other funding numbers based on package managers over here: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/funding
Funding in Open Source | Ecosyste.ms: Packages

We've detected 299,668 packages (3.06%) have declared a way to fund their development via a funding platform. Funded packages are detected via a funding url on their registry or via a funding.yml file in their repository or the owner of the repository is part of GitHub Sponsors.

Show threadgrinMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez I need a very sad and confused emoticon feedback.
Show threadoxclMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez HTML 1.74% is wild
Show threadplanetf1May 23, 2024
@andrewnez rust is nearly there with C++ ... One I have no experience in. learning has started!
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://May 22, 2024
@andrewnez maybe the amount of sponsors is not a very interesting number? I don't know about others but in #curl, the most common GitHub sponsor gives us 1 USD as a one-time only donation. It certainly bumps up the number of sponsors, but not the money...
Show threadAndrew NesbittMay 22, 2024
@bagder yeah it’s not great, but GitHub isn’t very transparent with donation amounts, unlike @opencollective
Show threadtobozoMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez if these numbers represent language sparsity per sponsored account rather than language sponsorability, then it means something like "10.57% of sponsored developers know javascript"?
Show threadAndrew NesbittMay 22, 2024
@tobozo yeah I think you could say that, some other language breakdown numbers for funding data based on package management data over here: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/funding
Funding in Open Source | Ecosyste.ms: Packages

We've detected 299,668 packages (3.06%) have declared a way to fund their development via a funding platform. Funded packages are detected via a funding url on their registry or via a funding.yml file in their repository or the owner of the repository is part of GitHub Sponsors.

Show threadtobozoMay 22, 2024
@andrewnez thanks!