Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by coredog64 on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:01AM
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This is an OS/2 vs. DOS argument. Doesn't matter if they have superior technology if nobody uses it.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by chomp on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:33AM
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Yeah. They do have great tools. And I appreciate that link, I never heard of it.
But I think that sort of makes my point. If a company makes world class tools that people don't know about or don't want to use, are the tools that valuable/good? Microsoft just spent $7.5 billion to say "we don't think Team Foundation Server can cut it for the developer population at large". By doing that, they threw themselves into the center of millions of developer workflows around the world. I think it was a great buy for them, and is definitely a strategic move.
Did you realize that your Java/Android Studio project in GitHub could be connected to App Center such that for every source check-in the project is built, unit tested (code-level), UI-tested on physical hardware (Xamarin Test Cloud), and if all tests pass the build is pushed to beta testers via HockeyApp which also captures reams of telemetry and debugging information? App Center can even be set up to automatically push the app all the way to Google Play automatically when you merge down to your release branch.
Ditto iOS apps written with Swift in Xcode.
If you think Microsoft doesn't have massive amounts of CI/CD tooling that is agnostic to language and platform you should check it out.
https://www.visualstudio.com/app-center/