Everyone knows Github right? If you write anything, in any development language â or even just do documentation then you have probably at the very least heard of Github. More than likely you use it too. But why?
Well, there are a lot of reasons to make use of it. Itâs very lightweight firstly and this is one of itâs greatest features in my eyes. No slow loading Sharepoint sites or systems that are bloated to cater for stuff that, as a developer, you do not want.
I started using Github many moons ago and used to store code snippets there rather than entire projects. Itâs so easy to just copy and paste a few strings of text into the Github editor and it saves into âthe cloudâ â ah yes that mysterious storage medium that means you shouldnât have to worry about losing the data any more â but, and hereâs my main issue with Github, you could have your account (or one of your contributors) compromised and all sorts of damage could happen to the code you have meticulously drank so many coffees over writing.
Oddly there is no ânativeâ backup solution and even though Github is âcloudâ based you would be made not to have a backup solution in place to ensure you donât lose all of your data.
