Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science ...

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 ...

Agents panel allows developers to delegate coding tasks to Copilot from anywhere on the GitHub platform. Agents work in the ...

GitHub has announced plans to acquire npm. Npm is the company behind the Node package manager for the programming language JavaScript, the npm Registry and npm CLI. “npm is a critical part of ...

Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most languages remained stagnant, with ...

As every quarter, GitHub visualizes the activities of its members in the Innovation Graph. In Q1 2025, there were changes in ...

And, while developers used almost 500 primary languages to build software on GitHub, JavaScript holds as No. 1 most used. This is followed by Python, which increased by 22.5%, then Java and ...

GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. npm is a key part of the JavaScript ecosystem, home to more than 1.3 ...

Thus, the ubiquitous JavaScript gained the No. 1 ranking in the most recent data point. It started off No. 2 in 2008, though, behind Ruby, the language used to write GitHub itself. "It should be noted ...