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That level of growth is really intense. I have noticed github getting quite a lot better recently with things like go to definition support when clicking class/function names in the projects readme or code.

I wonder how well gitlab will be able to keep up with this growth given they have about 600 employees in total. Maybe they are working more efficiently because GitHub certainly isn't 40x better.

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From my understanding, this isn't saying there are 25k employees working directly for/on github. This is saying they have a lot of distinctly separate open source projects (e.g. VSCode) that teams work on that are hosted on Github.

A quick google suggests there's some odd ~900 employees of Github, which is the same order of magnitude as Gitlab.

Ah, that certainly makes a lot more sense.

I interpreted the article as 25k Microsoft engineers working on open source projects affiliated with GitHub/Microsoft (e.g. Typescript) rather than GitHub the product. Moreover of those 25k they're not all full-time continuous or even contributing on company time.

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