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GitLab was never going to be the ones to take the mantle GitHub left on the ground. They’re a “clone” company and have very few original ideas of their own.

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They did it better. I’ve never met anyone who has used both GitLab CI and GitHub Actions and thought they were remotely equivalent.

To be fair to GitHub, "GitHub" Actions is just Azure DevOps Pipelines wearing a mask. Which I think explains a lot about it's quality as a feature. It was brought in as a rushed copy-paste of the existing Azure DevOps feature very quickly post acquisition.

I have to regularly use Azure DevOps and the whole platform is painful, and now is rotting on the vine. I hear there is internal strife at Microsoft between Azure DevOps and GitHub products.

Agreed about the GitLab CI. Far surperior than GitHub Actions.

Gitlab CI actually came befor Github Actions, but both were heavily influenced by Travis CI.

GitHub was already pretty much perfected years ago IMHO. I’m not convinced we need that many original ideas here

To build good software you need to think for yourself rather than aimlessly making a pastiche, derivative work never produces good art.

To build good software you need to take the time to make your existing features work well, and improve or prune the ones that don't. In other words, it is craftsmanship.

The American corporation and its values are anathema to craftsmanship. You can ******* a **** all you want, it's never going to turn into gold, but your hands will be covered in crud.

I think we are describing the same set of issues with different emphases.

Not a good analogy, lot of derivative work is excellent art

Better CI and better search are the two things that are still missing from GitHub

GitHub had good search but it's been terrible for years now. More recently I think it's only returned results when logged in.

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