How to Use source code in a Sentence

source code

noun
  • With 37 million users, GitHub is the largest host of source code in the world.
    Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2020
  • At first, Google released its source code and then gave demos of the new OS.
    Verge Staff, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2018
  • The source code is available on GitHub for anyone to try.
    Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • This allows the main A53 cores to only run open source code.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • But the source code for Yuzu and Citra have both already been pulled down from GitHub.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Turns out the reason was Volition lost the source code at some point.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Included in the theft, the group claims, are schematics and source code for drivers and firmware.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
  • It’s one thing to download a piece of open source code for use in a personal project.
    Matt Jones, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • The browser is based on open source code from Google through one of the tech giant’s projects called Chromium.
    Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But Cleopatra turned out to be a catfish, and the dude behind the account leaked Parthia’s source code.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Anyone can check Telegram's open source code and see there were no changes.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The New York Times reports that part of Twitter’s source code has been leaked online.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers found the websites’ source code on Git, a platform coders use to manage their work.
    Huo Jingnan, NPR, 6 June 2024
  • Dowd had found a bug in open-source code from Mozilla even before the San Bernardino events.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021
  • However, the source code of Barfi mentions AIG as the owner.
    Snigdha Poonam and Samarth Bansal, Quartz India, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The genius behind the bot is Reddit user oppai_suika, who was kind enough to also post the source code.
    Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2021
  • But that would require the vendors to open up their source code, which is messy and intricate.
    Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In the case of SolarWinds, the attackers were able to do more than simply view source code.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Be sure to maintain offline backups of your source code.
    Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Kotaku reports that the source code's been found, and that Volition plans on fixing the port in the near future.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 14 Oct. 2019
  • This work was partially funded by Voatz, which gave the firm access to its source code.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Apart from a massive leak of 90 minutes of game footage and its source code, information about the game has been scant.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Knyazev’s team took these ideas and wrote their own software from scratch, since Ren’s team didn’t publicize their source code.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2022
  • This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
    Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This is done using a set of look-up tables (LUTs) that are defined right after the library includes in the source code.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And in 2012, Symantec confirmed that a segment of its antivirus source code was stolen by hackers.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • To that end, the source code of a password manager could be open and available to anyone to examine.
    Karen Renaud and Norah Alkaldi, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • This makes its source code legally and freely available to end-users who can use it to create new products and services.
    Iwa Salami, Quartz, 24 May 2021
  • In early April, the city asked the developers to unpublish their source code from GitHub.
    Matt Burgess, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
  • But both these products are based heavily on open source code and provided free to customers.
    Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024

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