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So don’t use it? This is an additional feature for people that want to use it. It doesn’t prevent you from using your own IDE.

Are you even using Gitlab then ?

I feel you are completely out of their target base.

What IDE do you 'own'?

I guess that OP is talking about having the IDE/compiler/etc binary on their computer and not having to rely on any external service to work.

Well then self-hosted Gitlab is the perfect option.

GitLab team member here - using VS Code on a desktop client works well with the GitLab Workflow extension [0] for Git SCM operations, as well as CI/CD pipeline status from pushed commits & merge requests. Additionally, remote repository views come in handy. [1]

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/vscode.ht...

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/05/20/vscode-workflows-fo...

QtCreator? Vim? Eclipse? KDevelop?

And I'm just talking about C++ IDEs here.

Yeah, practically, it's the same. They don't even own git tbh, and won't even make noise on git core mailing list. I can even go extreme, practically, whether they even can.