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GitHub's Next Move: Turn Everybody Into a Programmer

Posted by Soulskill on from the boosting-razor-sales-by-forcing-100%-of-people-to-grow-beards dept.

mattydread23 writes: This interview with GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath and product VP Kakul Srivastava explains a little more what GitHub is planning for the future — and how the company is trying to live up to its $2 billion valuation. Basically, if every developer in the world uses and loves GitHub, the next logical step is to turn more people into developers. "Even today, Wanstrath says, there are journalists and scientists who are using GitHub to find, build, and share data-driven applications that assist with research or interactive projects. The goal, then, is to gradually make it a lot easier for anybody to get started on the platform. As more and more people get educated as programmers from an early age, Wanstrath wants GitHub to be the service of choice for the next generation to really get their feet wet."

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  1. Translation ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and how the company is trying to live up to its $2 billion valuation

    Sooner or later people will realize just how horribly overvalued we actually are, and we are desperately trying to do stupid things like turning everybody into a programmer so we can continue to prop up our overvalued company and continue to reap such awesome executive bonuses.

    Honestly, WTF revenue do they have? I see so damned many companies being valued in the billions, and for what seems like no justifiable reason.

    It's the .com era all over again ... "zomg, we have teh social" or whatever the daily buzzword is.

    It's a great way to separate investors from their money. But I remain unconvinced any of these companies are actually worth anything in the billions.

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    1. Re:Translation ... by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Github does not charge to host projects. Github therefore must use one of these three methods to make a profit if they don't start charging for use.

      It does: https://github.com/pricing

      Only public projects are free. And this is IMO a fair model. If you want to hide your code from the public, it means in most cases that your software is closed source. And that usually means you make money with it, where its just fair to give github a small part of it, these are basic economic "supply chain" rules. Conversely, if your code is public, it most likely is open source as well. There is some public content on github which is not open source licensed, but most of it is.

      And about learning git, it has a steep learning curve, but once you know it, its real fun. CVS isn't distributed, I really like git for its speed and features like git blame. Sadly many people think git == github.

      If I want to hide my projects from the public I'm not going to put them on someone else's server.

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  2. Not this shit again by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, STOP trying to make everybody a programmer. It's not going to happen, and it shouldn't happen.

    Why not make everyone a plumber or a mechanic or an insurance agent? BECAUSE IT'S STUPID, just like trying to make everyone a programmer.

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