Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by amf12 on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:01PM
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> The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows.
This is such a prejudiced statement. It can be said of any company.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by kankroc on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:19AM
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That's the point. No one acquires GitHub so no one can eventually corrupt it with partisan "my stuff is better than your stuff" idiocy.
GitHub works because it effectively belongs to "no one" as far as the big players are concerned. Sure they might themselves go bad one day but there is no point in hasting this for some two cents Azure/AWS/GCP mode.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by oaiey on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:38AM
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I am not worried about the ecosystem. See VS Code.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by aruggirello on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:04AM
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If the acquisition goes through, VS Code is probably going to kill Atom, which is my go-to editor for many tasks. VS Code may be better overall, but it's not for me, and I'll have to change my workflow.
The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing, but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows.
I like the fact Github is independent of all the big players. I really, really, really hope it stays a neutral ground.
Also, if acquired by MS, I'm not that afraid for github itself. However, what is at risk in my opinion is all the integrations around github. There is a rich and striving ecosystem surrounding github. Tools like appveyor, travis-ci, coverall, readthedocs, codacy are really useful, ease a lot development and are infinitely easier to setup/maintain than a Jenkins box plus a few slaves. What would happen to this ecosystem remains to be seen.