India is so poor, why is the IT industry developed and there are more programmers than other countries?

India's population is 65.438+32.4 million, and programmers account for 0.2% of the total population, about 2.7 million. However, in a country with an illiteracy rate as high as 50%, 2.7 million programmers is also a terrible number. Compared with China, the illiteracy rate in China is less than 1%, but the number of programmers only accounts for 0. 14% of the total population. What is the reason?

The first is the advantage of language. India has been colonized by Britain for 200 years, so English can be regarded as half the mother tongue of Indians. But most programming languages on the market are written in English, so Indians have language advantages over China.

The most important thing about the popularity of Indian programmers is that their ideas are closer to the West than other Asian countries. Silicon Valley can be said to be the place that most programmers yearn for. But Silicon Valley is in the United States, so its corporate culture has a strong American culture. India was once colonized by Britain, so it was deeply influenced by the West in many ways. Its way of thinking and culture are very consistent with most Silicon Valley enterprises, so Indian programmers are usually more popular with mainstream information technology enterprises. A tall and thin white code farmer, a short China code farmer, a code farmer from East India, and a code farmer with a full face of beard and long hair are the standard of Silicon Valley technology companies.

The number of international students in China is two to three times that of Indian students. However, only one in ten people can get a work visa. On the Zhihu, you can watch the Sino-Indian dispute in Silicon Valley for three days and three nights. Indian engineers are regarded as competitors and stumbling blocks of China engineers in Silicon Valley. However, starting from the management, many companies are occupied by Indians. You must put up with such an atmosphere.

Although Indian programmers are better than American programmers in China, as long as our domestic Internet technology companies grow up and there are many new stars like Huawei and Ali, future China engineers will no longer have to regard Silicon Valley as their holy land.