GitHub has sliced and diced the data from its annual Octoverse report on open source activity in a variety of ways, and no matter how you cut it, one overwhelming theme emerges: JavaScript rules.

Turning next to program structure, how open-source code is linked to other code can have significant implications to open-source license compliance.

While Snowflake is talking up its use of Iceberg to promote interoperability, Databricks is buying Tabular, the tool built on Iceberg’s table format by Iceberg’s creators.

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Facebook this week is open-sourcing Relay, which provides data-fetching for React JavaScript applications. The move could open up new possibilities for the technology, Facebook engineers said ...

The JavaScript open-source project Babel — used by companies like Facebook, Netflix, and Airbnb — says it has only a few months of funding left.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery ...

Google is expanding its open source OSS-Fuzz bug bounty and is adding support for projects written in the most popular programming languages.

Microsoft continued its historic open source efforts by announcing it will donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the community -- and solicit outside help in making it cross ...

When the company decided it needed something more performant it looked towards an open source language from the champions of closed source proprietary software, Microsoft.