Andrew NesbittMay 21, 2024

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.

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 threadBen Butler
@andrewnez A ton of people are going to point this out, but many PHP/C#, Java projects, etc. show up as JavaScript in GitHub.
May 22, 2024 at 12:00pmWeb
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.