Being about code

Published May 26, 2009

GitHub didn’t catch on because of Git. It may have helped, but it wasn’t the primary catalyst.

GitHub caught on because it’s about code. Sharing, finding, and contributing code.

Rubyforge and Sourceforge aren’t about code. They never were.

—defunkt’s Gist

GitHub has been described as a social networking site. I think this is true, except that its the code that is social rather than the people. And it really works.