GitHub is a web-based hosting and collaboration service for software source code, built around the Git version-control system and launched in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Scott Chacon. It became the world's largest host of software source code and the default social and collaborative platform for open-source development, was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and later launched GitHub Copilot, one of the first widely used AI coding-assistant products built on large language models.
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Classification
Sector (GICS) Offering Kind MakerTom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett and Scott Chacon 1 Sources
1. GitHub - Wikipedia
Founding, launch
The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon after it had been available for a few months as a beta release.
History, development
The GitHub service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008.
Introduction, GICS sector classification
GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code.
Introduction, offering kind classification
GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code.
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