Microsoft will soon control more of the open source software development ecosystem. GitHub, which Microsoft bought in 2018, said Monday that it will acquire NPM, which offers a crucial service for ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with ...

Microsoft’s open-source shopping spree has claimed another victim: npm. [Nat Friedman], CEO of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), announced the move recently on the GitHub blog. So what motivated the ...

Source code repository hoster GitHub has listed the most popular programming languages used on its site, tracking usage trends since it launched in 2008. It revealed few surprises, mostly matching up ...

GitHub’s increasing popularity, and the availability of its usage data, make it a good source for examining trends in software development. For example, I’ve used their data in the past to look at ...

The thing I find most baffling about the programming tests I've been running is that tools based on the same large language model tend to perform quite differently. Also: The best AI for coding in ...

Ubiquitous jQuery has been outmoded by JavaScript and browser advances. These jQuery-like alternatives pick up where jQuery left off Simplifying tasks such as HTML document traversal, animation, and ...