Open source code is now used by over 70 per cent of software developers in Asia, according to a new report.
The number of developers using open source in the region has surged more than 40 per cent in just three years, Evans Data Corporation revealed in a recent survey of software engineers.
"Developers who faced difficult coding assignments had a harder time before open source software became common," said the research firm.
"This is because the developer can see every bit of [the code] to see how a [software application] functions and how it can be modified. This is much less awkward than working with proprietary binaries which operate as black boxes."