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Didn't see this one coming, considering how well Nat/GitHub was doing since MS acquired them where they now appear to be unstoppably dominant who are successfully branching out of repo hosting to take over more of the dev/project lifecycle.

Will be interesting to see what his next plans are.



Agreed, github has seemed to be absolutely crushing it lately. With novel features every couple months: Copilot, workspaces, wayyyy better CI.


It was only a couple years ago when it seemed competitors were eating at many of GitHub's fringe uses, and even some (like GitLab) were hacking at the core.

GitHub really amped it up and not only brought out useful features from around 2018 on, it also started fixing some (not all) of the most annoying long-term gripes users and maintainers have had.

Couple that with adding more abilities to free accounts, and they seem to have all the momentum for dev tooling right now.

I just hope they don't get complacent, or target the enterprise stuff too much.


Seems like they promoted the chief product officer. Seems like exactly the person who delivered this.


Tangential but what do you mean with better CI? GitHub doesn’t do any CI at all as far as I know, and Travis turned commercial only. Did I miss something?


Github is one of the biggest CI players around, I think. https://github.com/features/actions

At Notion we use Actions to build our iOS and Android nightly apps and deploy our client and server releases to production.


while i agree that github is a huge CI player, i really really miss gitlab's ci -- i feel like they were more flexible compared to github's.


>Didn't see this one coming

It also happened M$ promoted [1] a new president of the MSFT DevDiv, which includes GitHub.

It happened on the same day, I mean I cant help to read a lot into it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640#29098677




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