But each of these projects depend on smaller libraries of open-source code. And those libraries depend on other libraries. The result is a complex, but largely hidden, web of software dependencies.

Front-end web development platform startup Netlify Inc. said today it has acquired a rival company called Gatsby Inc., the creator of the open-source GatsbyJS framework, for an undisclosed fee.

Among the main open-source projects from Microsoft are Windows Terminal, VS Code, .NET MAUI, the Windows Calculator, TypeScript, the Cascadia Code font, the Windows package manager Winget ...

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

They also have 61 external developers contributing to the open source project, which is helping speed up development for a young company with limited engineering resources, and helping drive interest.