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Ask HN: Does anyone know what’s happening at GitHub?

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Their CEO and COO left the company, pretty much within a month. More here https://twitter.com/gortok/status/1466889934623674370?s=21

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Microsoft has a lightweight "code storage" platform - GitHub and a heavyweight "code storage" platform - Azure DevOps. I see them unifying in the future, ideally taking the good from both platforms, but very likely in a way that allows the company to optimize cost, whatever that means. Either there was no need for a CEO/COO at GitHub, or they were not the best to make this transition, or they didn't agree to the direction in which GitHub is going.

I dont know. But I think it is quite normal during these sort of transition. Because if she was a CEO candidate and she lost may be its better to leave than to stick around. So probably just some power play. Not a change in strategic direction.

Looks like it's little more than corporate churn to me. Dotnet has been a bit of a clusterfsck for the past few years, I can imagine anyone with their name associated with it being in the hot-seat so to speak, especially working at a website that for the most part sustains open source development.

Why do you care? It's not like GitHub is going to be any different. It will still continue to host your code.

Why do you not care? Github hosts a huge volume of code. It's also owned by Microsoft. To date, Microsoft has been pretty hands off in their ownership. But now the CEO and COO are gone, at the same time as Microsoft is ramping up its offensives on other fronts [0], [1].

Related? Maybe not. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask if there's anything significant in the CEO and COO leaving in close succession given the impact of a change in policy.

[0] https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4041527/microsoft-edge-prom...

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/12/microsoft-blocks-other-bro...

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Seems like a waste of time to worry about such things.

Microsoft already reversed course on the browser changes, already in the insider builds.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...

With GitHub, I doubt much of anything will change. In 5-10 years then yes I forsee massive industry changes...think of commiting your code in the meta-verse or in VR using Apple Glass. Git as a protocol arrived in what 2008, surely by 2038 we will all be using some different protocol. Change happens.

>think of commiting your code in the meta-verse or in VR using Apple Glass

How is that different from what I do today in my terminal? The code is text. A delta of that text is uploaded to a repository.

"metaverse" is just a pretty marketing-term. Underneath, it's yet another I/O-device.

And btw. I have yet to see anything in VR, and I use my Quest2 almost daily, that could even come close to the efficiency and simplicity of writing code on a keyboard, and controlling software with commands typed into a terminal.

If the president and vice president left office, I'm pretty sure my life wouldn't change either. I still care though.

I'm pretty sure that would make a huge difference vs Microsoft shuffling the people that preside over basic code hosting services.

You're right. When Trump and Pence left office, my entertainment news took a massive hit.