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GitHub owns NPM (And yes Microsoft owns GitHub)


It's incredible how much of the software development space is owned by Microsoft now. I wonder if they will also buy JetBrains in the foreseeable future?


If the Bloomberg article[0] about them is to be believed, I don't think they're interested in being acquired

[0]: https://archive.is/WeAEV


I suspect Microsoft prefers extending the reach of Visual Studio Code over acquiring JetBrains.


I think they'd also prefer to extend the reach of C# over adopting JavaScript. But alas, reality is what reality is.

Well, there is TypeScript so...




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