Among new projects started on GitHub, Java is now the second most popular programming language, up from seventh place in 2008; according to Balter, the increase is driven not by private code ...

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 today shared a closer look at how the popularity of programming languages used on its code collaboration website has changed over the years. In short, the graph above shows the change in ...

GitHub has released its annual State of the Octoverse — its regular report on the most popular programming languages and open source projects on its ubiquitous code-sharing service for programmers.

Developers who want to try new programming languages or projects flock to GitHub, the Microsoft-owned service for sharing code and gathering communities around open-source software. Every year ...

When I wrote about GitHub Copilot in November 2021, Copilot was one of only a handful of AI code generation technologies available.I tested it as a Visual Studio Code extension. At the time ...

As with the outputs of natural language generators like ChatGPT, the code coming from Copilot is largely legible, but like any large language model trained on the open internet, GitHub made sure ...

For example, natural language documentation inside most software programs is sparse. Users of GitHub Copilot create this documentation by default as they use the tool. “You get a bunch of comments in ...

In 2018, soon after Microsoft acquired GitHub, the company detailed efforts to use language models to power semantic code search, the first in a series of applied research initiatives involving AI.

Among new projects started on GitHub, Java is now the second-most popular programming language, up from seventh place in 2008; according to Balter, the increase is driven not by private code ...