JavaScript is still a winner when it comes to programming languages but Kotlin, HCL, TypeScript and PowerShell are quickly climbing the ranks.

GitHub is primarily a collaborative approach to coding and technical expertise, but dig a little deeper and you find that the company is so much more.

The US$7.5 billion deal brings Microsoft closer to the heart of developer communities; with new CEO Nat Friedman replacing former GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath.

Between 2017 and 2018 there has been a 44% jump in the number of organisations using GitHub across public and private repositories.

Look beyond the code on GitHub and you’ll see a huge community of people from almost every corner of the globe contributing to more than 96 million repositories.

“These past ten years have been the most transformative in tech,” says GitHub SVP Technology Jason Warner.

GitHub says the new features are just a few of a swath of improvements that will be coming to Atom.

"Open source is quickly becoming mainstream and the community behind it just keeps on growing."

Web development and coding platform GitHub has rolled out password and two-factor authentication revamps to make user accounts more secure.

“Over the coming weeks, we will be adding more historical Python vulnerabilities to our database. "

Caught in the belief that rapid software development is impossible with compliance obligations always in the way? Think again, says GitHub.

"Microsoft is a developer-first company, and by joining forces with GitHub we strengthen our commitment to developer freedom."

With GitHub Learning Lab, developers will learn through issues opened by a bot in a GitHub repository.

Not only with the companies protect customers, they've also vowed not to help governments who want to go on the cyber offensive.

GitHub’s Security Bug Bounty program paid out more than US$166,000 in 2017 after a significant payout revamp that doubled amounts across the board.

Last year, 24 million people from over 200 different countries worked together on GitHub to code better and build bigger.

Regulators in Europe, China, and elsewhere are increasingly setting the agenda on issues ranging from data protection to cybersecurity and AI.

GitHub has unveiled security improvements that will allow developers to track which dependencies are associated with public security vulnerabilities.

GitHub has made its Developer Progam free to all of its 19 million users, allowing developers worldwide to use the global web-based platform.

Be on your guard if you’re a developer who uses GitHub – someone could be trying to infect your computer with malware.

Currently, more than 15 million people use GitHub to discover, and contribute to over 38 million projects.