top | item 31489425 (no title) bibinou | 3 years ago a fork developed by who?OP is literally Gitlab admitting they can't build a competitive web editor. discuss order hn newest dijit|3 years ago A fork by more people than just gitlab is going to be easier than a reimplementation created only by gitlab.1) It is a product that exists, maintenance is easier than building from scratch in this case.2) a consolidated effort by many people in maintaining a fork will allow much more effort than gitlab alone can spend.3) mindshare on how vscode works already exists externally, a new webIDE doesn't have the same level of developer mindshare anyway.As a paying gitlab customer I'd rather their money be spent on things that actually matter; reimplementing open source tools does not matter. ohgodplsno|3 years ago And ? Should every company yak-shave to satisfy FOSS zealots ? Where does it stop ? Is running Gitlab on Windows a problem ?Let Gitlab focus on git repositories, project management and devops. Everything else is just a pure waste of time. nisegami|3 years ago >OP is literally Gitlab admitting they can't build a competitive web editor.Or they've just decided it's not a good use of their finite resources?
dijit|3 years ago A fork by more people than just gitlab is going to be easier than a reimplementation created only by gitlab.1) It is a product that exists, maintenance is easier than building from scratch in this case.2) a consolidated effort by many people in maintaining a fork will allow much more effort than gitlab alone can spend.3) mindshare on how vscode works already exists externally, a new webIDE doesn't have the same level of developer mindshare anyway.As a paying gitlab customer I'd rather their money be spent on things that actually matter; reimplementing open source tools does not matter.
ohgodplsno|3 years ago And ? Should every company yak-shave to satisfy FOSS zealots ? Where does it stop ? Is running Gitlab on Windows a problem ?Let Gitlab focus on git repositories, project management and devops. Everything else is just a pure waste of time.
nisegami|3 years ago >OP is literally Gitlab admitting they can't build a competitive web editor.Or they've just decided it's not a good use of their finite resources?
dijit|3 years ago
1) It is a product that exists, maintenance is easier than building from scratch in this case.
2) a consolidated effort by many people in maintaining a fork will allow much more effort than gitlab alone can spend.
3) mindshare on how vscode works already exists externally, a new webIDE doesn't have the same level of developer mindshare anyway.
As a paying gitlab customer I'd rather their money be spent on things that actually matter; reimplementing open source tools does not matter.
ohgodplsno|3 years ago
Let Gitlab focus on git repositories, project management and devops. Everything else is just a pure waste of time.
nisegami|3 years ago
Or they've just decided it's not a good use of their finite resources?