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 ...

GitHub Copilot, GitHub’s service that intelligently suggests lines of code, is now available in a plan for enterprises months after launching for individual users and educators. Called GitHub ...

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 ...

Microsoft is acquiring npm, a major JavaScript-developer platform, which it is planning to integrate with GitHub. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Senior Contributing Editor ...

GitHub's acquisition this week of NPM Inc., a prominent player in the JavaScript ecosystem, has sparked both worry and welcome from users of the ubiquitous programming language. The company hosts Node ...

Just last year, Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion as a key part of its plan to attract more developers to its cloud. Here are the 10 most popular programming languages, according to GitHub.