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Comment by iagooar | Hacker News Reader

Amazon going into Github's and Gitlab's space. I wonder how they will react to this and how this might affect them.

I don't think they need to worry; AWS continues its potato quality UX with CodeCommit. Unless you're hard core into using git in terminal for practically everything I can't see this taking much if any business from the existing big players.

uhhh....yeah.....I would say the vast majority of devs in the non-MSFT space use terminal more than 99% of the time...

> I would say the vast majority of devs in the non-MSFT space use terminal more than 99% of the time

That's a pretty bold claim. Do you have any data behind it?

It's only anecdotal but in my experience it's almost the exact opposite; having worked in multiples of both MSFT and non-MSFT shops it seems like almost every one uses a UI to handle git. I don't blame them; it's not always easy visualizing all of the changes (in my opinion at least) just through a terminal window.

Sadly no, it was a terribly anecdotal claim with no official evidence to back it up. I guess the point behind my claim is what do you mean by "working with git"? To me it is about checking code in, diffing, etc... which most people I've ever worked with do from the terminal. Occasionally I'll see folks want a gui for diffs (not really surprising since it's kinda fugly from terminal), but do most of the "work" from term.

So I suppose I shall digress and admit I committed a total failure at an internet statement on a decently technical forum.

in the words of Homer....

doh!

using the terminal for staging lots of code, or comparing diffs is painful. i personally use sourcetree for that or open a PR on bitbucket/github

We welcome Amazon coming into this space, there is room for multiple code hosting services. At GitLab we'll focus on the needs of our open source community: a complete, user-friendly and scalable product at a good price. We hope that other cloud platforms will consider running GitLab for git hosting. It is not a reaction to Amazon, but we did announce our seed round today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857901

Amazon is just releasing their own internal GitFarm product that's been around for a while, rather than building something new to "go after GitHub."

Amazon has clones of several major services that haven't really gone anywhere...I don't think it will affect github all that much.

GitHub's power is their UI and UX. Amazon is the exact opposite. That's why Amazon charges no more than $1 per user in teams, while GitHub can charge $25 for 10 repos at any team size.

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