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How GitHub monopolized code hosting

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I’ve been writing code since high school. I have faint memories of creating an Android game with a friend using Tortoise SVM to share code. At college, I learned to clone GitHub repos to access CS homework assignments. Later, during internships, I joined the ranks using GitHub to review and merge PRs. Most developers who came to professional age during the last decade probably had a similar experience to me - GitHub is synonymous with source code and code changes, whether with open source projects or on private company teams. It’s easy to take GitHub ubiquity for granted - but how did things get this way? I asked my teammate, David, how he came to discover GitHub. He’s who’s been coding a decade longer than I have, and lived through the professional transition. Throughout the 2000’s, he recounted using SVN at programming jobs. He would download software from SourceForge but considered the UI utilitarian and “crappy.” Eventually, he found himself navigating to GitHub more and more often

I’ve been writing code since high school. I have faint memories of creating an Android game with a friend using Tortoise SVM to share code. At college, I learned to clone GitHub repos to access CS homework assignments. Later, during internships, I joined the ranks using GitHub to review and merge PRs. Most developers who came to professional age during the last decade probably had a similar experience to me - GitHub is synonymous with source code and code changes, whether with open source projects or on private company teams. It’s easy to take GitHub ubiquity for granted - but how did things g

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