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Truth be told, CodePlex is fairly popular in the .NET world. TypeScript simply is a JavaScript project, plays well with Node, NPM and Jake - I think it makes sense for it to be on GitHub. It's not the first MSFT source base hosted on GitHub, probably won't be the last. Heck, I work at MSFT and keep all my open source code on GitHub.

I wouldn't read too much into that though - huge company, a bunch of projects and different audiences. CodePlex has an audience - there's a bunch of cool projects on there, too.



> It's not the first MSFT source base hosted on GitHub

It is, however, the only repo under the "Microsoft" GitHub user AFAICT (https://github.com/Microsoft).


True - but remember, there's a bunch of teams building stuff. Most of Open Tech's and Azure's open code bases are on GitHub. TypeScript isn't the biggest MS project on GitHub and I just want to make sure that nobody is using this as a "CodePlex is dead!" data point.

https://github.com/MSOpenTech https://github.com/Azure/


Not to mention ASP.NET vNext and related projects:

https://github.com/aspnet/


And WinJS https://github.com/winjs/winjs


And the Reactive Extensions for all languages: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/


The Microsoft repo is pretty new. Expect more to show up here soon.




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