GitHub
GitHub, Inc. is a platform and cloud-based service for software development and version control, allowing developers to store and manage their code. It uses Git software, providing the distributed... Wikipedia
- Type of business: Subsidiary
- Available in: English
- Founded: February 8, 2008 (as Logical Awesome LLC)
- Area served: Worldwide
- Founder(s): Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Scott Chacon
- Key people: Thomas Dohmke (CEO), Mike Taylor (CFO), Kyle Daigle (COO)
- Industry: Collaborative version control (GitHub), AI development tools (GitHub Copilot), Blog host (GitHub Pages), Package repository (NPM)
- Revenue: $1 billion (2022)
- Employees: 2,500
- Parent: Microsoft
- Registration: Optional (required for creating and joining repositories)
- Users: 100 million (January 2023)
- Launched: April 10, 2008
- Current status: Active
- Written in: Ruby, JavaScript, Go, C, Rust
- Data source: DuckDuckGo