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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by leoedin on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:32AM (#31489115)
Google had a viable GitHub competitor at one point. But they let it languish and then shut it down. It's a familiar story.
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by tex0 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:59AM (#31490434)
What was that called?
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by xvello on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:14AM (#31490542)
Google Code: https://code.google.com/archive/
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by tex0 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @09:46AM (#31492034)
Oh. I thought you were talking about a viable GitHub competitor ;)
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by hjkl0 on Friday May 27, 2022 @04:46AM (#31527416)
It was the go-to for hosting small projects for a time, back then.
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by infogulch on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:47PM (#31496728)
What made it unviable except letting it languish and then shutting it down?
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by smileybarry on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:32AM (#31502567)
It had what was essentially an HTML4 UI and just SVN support for what seems like forever. I can't remember a version of it that didn't look like 2005 Gmail.
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Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE by webmaven on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:09PM (#31508295)
Hence "languish". When it was first made available in 2006, it wasn't an also-ran.
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