GitPod so far has been a better experience, unless you get access to the actually 'paid' codespaces. Dealing with branches is a pain and a fork is impossible with the GitHub web editor. GitPod has a better real desktop experience in the browser. So I can see how this can help verify the experience they are after and confirms people want.

Personally been using GitPod a lot for mentoring and small workshops. (but also coder).

I’ll add an anecdote here that I’ve been really looking forward to playing with codespaces, and after seeing this post earlier today I spent a bit of time playing with gitpod, and reading up on comparisons. The clear pricing, prebuilds, and simple configuration has me leaning towards trialing gitpod for our team, I doubt I would have even been aware of it without the hype around codespaces.

Is it though? This totally sounds like "yeay... we love that you've ruined our business model, it's greeaaat!"

Though I get that you can't really say that you're gutted. And at least they aren't giving Codespaces away for free, so you can at least compete.

And I guess companies like Shazam and TomTom still exist, despite Google making way better free versions of their products.

Not affiliated with anything of this at all, but this can totally be a good thing for them.

GitHub entering this space gives them additional validation of the existence of a market for this kind of product and gives a lot of additional exposure to the product idea as a whole.

Even if they will now get a smaller percentage of developers using this kind of tool, the rise in the total number of developers using such tools will most probably make up for it.

Gitpod looks awesome! I hope a CodeCommit integration is coming so I can use this in my environment.

Also great work leading the charge on the COVIDSafe app last year - I knew I knew your name from somewhere!

very nice gesture :-) greetings from kiel <3