GitHub is now also a CVE CNA and can issue its own CVE numbers for bugs disclosed in projects hosted on the platform.

Before 2016, TypeScript was not a top 10 language in GitHub's rankings but it climbed to seventh position in 2018 and over the past year has shot up to fourth spot, eclipsing C#, PHP and C++.

GitHub, the software collaboration platform owned by Microsoft, is laying off up to 10% of its workforce and closing all of its offices, including its San Francisco headquarters.