Re:Let's Make Sure GitHub Doesn't Become the Only Option
by superkuh on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:16AM
(#35788828)
Gitlab is a worse user experience for people looking at your repo and code online. It doesn't even display a list of files without javascript. And even when it does it take 5 cores at 100% to do a directory listing of gtk3. It's really a terrible web interface no matter how nice the dev side git interface is.
Re:Let's Make Sure GitHub Doesn't Become the Only Option
by toastal on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:49AM
(#35799338)
GitLab is also open-core and publicly-traded. For now, I appreciate what they do and how the issue tracker is mostly public, but when the investors say “it’s time to turn this into a money printing machine so I can get my ROI”, I don’t know that I have a lot of confidence in it in the long run.
> These competitors don’t offer other, major code collaboration tools [...] They looked at the dominant player and did the same.
It really feels the opposite to me with gitlab:
- CICD were in gitlab before github action, and is still way more complete in gitlab
- gitpod was here before codespace
- infrastructure and dependency management was in gitlab before github, and still needs third party to be as complete as gitlab
- custom and licence compliance is still incomplete in github, still needs third party stuff ...
My 2 cents: GitHub profits from heavy projects and a better marketing team than Gitlab
But yes, GitLab is at it's full potential only when you pay ...