Well I work with gitlab since ~10 years or so, and to be fair this seems wrong:
> 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 ...
> 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 ...