Koding goes open source

At GitLab we're very excited about this. We think it is great to quickly get started on a new project without installing the dependencies locally.

Docker containers helped a bit but still need local compute power (draining the battery, making your laptop hot, and spinning the CPU fan). Worse, sometimes you can't run the same things as you run in production (Elasticsearch cluster, etc.) because you don't have enough memory.

We think Koding is a great way to get the compute power of the cloud while still being able to use your local editor (Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Textmate) with their kd client. We're working on the integration in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4769

Please let us know what you think, will this enable more 'drive-by-commits'?