[storm1er]

Well I work with gitlab since ~10 years or so, and to be fair this seems wrong:

> These competitors don’t offer other, major code collaboration tools [...] They looked at the dominant player and did the same.

It really feels the opposite to me with gitlab:

- CICD were in gitlab before github action, and is still way more complete in gitlab

- gitpod was here before codespace

- infrastructure and dependency management was in gitlab before github, and still needs third party to be as complete as gitlab

- custom and licence compliance is still incomplete in github, still needs third party stuff ...

My 2 cents: GitHub profits from heavy projects and a better marketing team than Gitlab

But yes, GitLab is at it's full potential only when you pay ...

[superkuh]

Gitlab is a worse user experience for people looking at your repo and code online. It doesn't even display a list of files without javascript. And even when it does it take 5 cores at 100% to do a directory listing of gtk3. It's really a terrible web interface no matter how nice the dev side git interface is.

[toastal]

GitLab is also open-core and publicly-traded. For now, I appreciate what they do and how the issue tracker is mostly public, but when the investors say “it’s time to turn this into a money printing machine so I can get my ROI”, I don’t know that I have a lot of confidence in it in the long run.