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 ...

The programming language Zig is leaving GitHub after ten years. The reason is problems with GitHub Actions, chaotic job ...

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 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 ...

The Ars Technica report from August captured the change. GitHub will be folded into Microsoft’s CoreAI division. The GitHub CEO is leaving. Microsoft is not replacing the role. The company said GitHub ...

The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.

AI company Anthropic has acquired the open-source JavaScript toolkit Bun, which it uses for the infrastructure of Claude Code ...

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 ...

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 ...