India’s developer community reached new heights in 2024, both in terms of growth and innovation. The number of developers on GitHub in India surpassed 17 million, which is more than the entire population of Bengaluru city, making it one of the fastest-growing communities on the web. Not just that, the contributions to public generative AI projects increased by 95%, while India’s developer community continued to embrace AI-developer tools, setting the stage for even greater breakthroughs in 2025.
With a surging developer community and the large-scale adoption of AI tools, here’s how India’s developer community will make its mark on the world in 2025.
Indian Devs Hold the Power for Large-Scale Transformation
The sheer size of India’s vibrant developer community signals incredible prosperity for 2025—after all, where developers thrive, economic growth follows.
Combined with the power of AI tools like GitHub Copilot, India’s developer community is poised to fuel a fresh wave of homegrown tech multinationals, a new generation of disruptive startups, and an empowered open-source community like never before. These communities will leverage AI developer tools to shape global innovation and create digital solutions that benefit society—much like the impactful work being done by Open Healthcare Network in India.
To turn this vision into reality, GitHub is empowering every Indian developer to unlock the potential of AI-powered software by offering GitHub Copilot Free in VS Code. With the community shipping software up to 55% faster, immense digital and economic progress lies ahead for India.
Imagine a country where each developer, equipped with AI tools like GitHub Copilot, contributes to the nation’s growth by solving problems for their society. They educate people about technology, contribute to open-source digital public goods, and create newer ways to drive large-scale transformation.
It’s a New Era of ABCD: AnyBody Can Develop!
AI has successfully created a bridge between humans and machine languages. This will empower children in India to start programming in their native languages even before learning English in schools.
Be it Hindi, Kannada or Marathi, aspiring developers can now write and understand code—traditionally a complex abstraction layer—in natural language.
With AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot, students can learn to code in their own language, using AI as a personal programming assistant, much like a calculator for coding. This will add millions more to India’s rising developer community, cementing its place as the largest developer hub in the world. More importantly, it will ensure that every Indian student can explore STEM careers and express their creativity through code without needing to learn English first.
Digital Diwali: Where Ideas Ignite with the Power of AI
AI is ready to empower anyone to turn their ideas into reality, all in natural language, leading to an explosion of creativity in India and across the globe. This has never been more possible than with GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for creating and sharing micro apps (“sparks”) tailored to individual needs and preferences. While still in technical preview, it’s going to build a world where anyone and everyone is empowered to create or adapt software for themselves.
If India continues to nurture its developer community and grow it at scale while simultaneously embracing the transformative power of AI, the nation will not only cement its place as a global AI leader but also extend the economic opportunity of building software to all its people. The promise of this new future is entirely possible—and 2025 will be a pivotal year in paving the way.
