Microsoft announced the acquisition of Github, the world’s largest repository of open-source code for $7.5 billion.
Developers love GitHub for its enormous collection of codes in different operating systems and languages as well as it’s flexibility and decentralized nature. Now many of them are concerned about what will happen to the platform after its acquisition by a big corporation.
As a result, coders are now flocking to rival repositories such as GitLab and BitBucket. In fact, GitLab has received 50,000 new projects so far ever since the rumors of GitHub’s acquisition started doing rounds a week ago.
The open-source repository has seen a massive spike in traffic with “13,000 projects being imported within a single hour.”