Agreed. They are a shining example of what I look for in a commercial company building an open source product. Self-hosted, community edition with no fundamental deficiencies, hackable, and a CEO with more 3rd party presence (he's always on here in the comments) than anyone could ever ask for.

I only wish it were written in something which compiles native, like C or Go. Not bad enough to switch to anything else however, and it's really just my own personal dislike for Rails/Ruby.

Love the Gitlab-CI integration too, and am excited to see how it grows/improves over time.

Thanks for all the kind words!

We love the speed of Go. That is why with GitLab 8.0 we'll make gitlab-git-http-server the default way to clone repositories. For CI the runner that executes the tests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner is already written on Go so it is portable and installs without dependencies.

We expect that for the majority of the functionality a high level language will continue to be the best choice. Personally I'm watching Elixir and its Phoenix framework that are very fast. But for the foreseeable future we're very happy with Ruby and Rails.

Awesome, glad to hear that and thanks for posting.