gburnett

It will end up where the service provider takes it.

Don't imagine that GitHub cares about lowering barriers to entry as an end in itself.

It does this as a means to pursue GitHub's business interests.

That is a very simplistic, and incorrect, response to the problem.

GitHub provides computing resources, for free, to attract users. This is just one of the challenges of that business model. If this is intolerable for GitHub then it's up to them to find a strategy to counter it.

We don't need to ask the government to punish everyone participating in cryptocurrency.

A change to GMT all year round would be most welcome here in the U.K.

Yes, I'm not sure why transpiling will ever go away. Not sure either why it would be limited to specifications.

This was my first thought after reading it. I've used gitlab.com, also locally, and it is ok. Presumably people will want to stick with github due to popularity though.

In my experience the phrase has the meaning that twic described.