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Yes, my experience is that Github isn't actually universal. I've yet to work for a company that uses it, personally. My only interaction with Github is in the hobbyist realm when I want code from an OSS project that is hosted there.

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This has been my experience too. I think of Github as more like a social media platform that incorporates git as a convenient feature. Large corps use it as a marketing/PR forum and regular people use it to connect to other people interested in programming.

But what software are large corps use then? I work at a fairly large coorp (>650000 employees) and they are indeed using Github Enterprise (and some other solutions like Bitbucket data center). I'm would be quite surprised if they really only use software like Github for public things.

With my last four employers, two used subversion, one used git (just git -- not github or the like) and my current one uses whatever Azure Devops is using.

gitlab is what my company uses

I worked at a company circa 2010 with around 2000 engineers that used git + gerrit + Jenkins + JIRA.

Worked at another company circa 2015 with around 80k employees (not sure how many engineers) that used git + cgit + Jenkins + JIRA.

Azure DevOps is in a weird zombie state where everyone knows Github is getting all the development attention (and presumably most of the workforce now) but Microsoft is keeping it on just enough life support to keep companies "happy enough" and are still refusing to call it "dead". (They continue to point to the development roadmap, which is still actively maintained, but to some like me read very much like "bare minimum maintenance feature set". It also doesn't help that of the few open repositories for checking in on AzDO development, such as their community proposals repo, which are themselves hosted on Github, hah, it is very transparent most haven't seen active commits since 2019 or 2020.)

Bitbucket has a lot of Jira-integration and a lot of large corps are in Jira for the long haul now and "might as well get the synergy of Bitbucket".

Plus, don't underestimate the sunk cost fallacy factor keeping a lot of large corporations locked into things like Perforce and ClearCase.

Exactly this: I hate that GitHub is indeed very much like a social media. Expect also all the weird algorithmic surveillance to work underneath.

Self plug: https://sr.ht/~toastal/github-less-social/

I made a filter list for uBlock Origin (and compatible) ad-blockers that can hide many of the social media aspects of Microsoft GitHub to make it a bit more tolerable when forced to interact with it due to project lock-in.

I have seen it used on a commercial project, but I couldn't fathom why they were doing it. I guess business people did their thing. Large healthcare related project in the US.

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