Yeah or Google. They stopped Google Code (or whatever it was) to move it all to GitHub; I just assumed they'd then buy GitHub. Felt like a much more natural home for it.
Maybe Gitlab?
The price they paid is much higher than what Google could reasonably do. They are not a developer focused company like Microsoft.
And so, it baffles me even more that AWS weren't in the conversation to acquire GitHub (or if they were, that they failed to acquire them). Seems like a huge miss to me.
> Meanwhile, JetBrains seems to be staying afloat mostly thanks to hard work and sheer luck.
Setting aside their colossal IDE efforts for a minute, Kotlin and the ecosystem JetBrain's building alone shows their level of competence. Truly amazing to put in so much effort while also making the business work. I mean, in a world of F/OSS languages, frameworks, and IDEs this is no mean feat.