Developers know efficient software matters, but many lack a clear way to find waste, measure an improvement, and make the case for fixing it.
That is the central finding from a new survey of 1,039 GitHub users conducted by GitHub and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Eight in 10 respondents said they were interested in tools that help them write more energy-efficient code. Nearly as many wanted best practices for reducing software’s environmental footprint, and almost 75% wanted ways to measure the impact of their software or development process.
There is an opportunity to turn that interest into normal engineering work: identify unnecessary compute, propose a change, test it, and let maintainers decide what ships.
