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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#132Lots of comments here remind me of the time GitHub was purchased by Microsoft. It would be the dead of GitHub. While in fact it got better: GitHub Actions (pretty neat CI system) happend under Microsoft. Free private repos happend under Microsoft. Now this time it could be different. But last time wasn't that bad imho.
Gitlab had their CI/CD a few years earlier, Github had no other option. As to which one feels more productive, that's up to personal tastes, for me Gitlab's option seems far more polished.
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#133Lots of comments here remind me of the time GitHub was purchased by Microsoft. It would be the dead of GitHub. While in fact it got better: GitHub Actions (pretty neat CI system) happend under Microsoft. Free private repos happend under Microsoft. Now this time it could be different. But last time wasn't that bad imho.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, etc, etc.
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#134[dupe] more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864929
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heres the thing: it was a dev company with a side-AI business, but now Microsoft has signaled it wants an AI-GitHub with a dev-side business. The features that will be prioritized will be AI not Git improvement
Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns. I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.
Github Pages STILL don't have any sort of built-in analytics available. I shouldn't need GA or something else to track the basic website metrics when you absolutely know that MS and GH have been tracking these things the whole time. People have had issues up asking for this for literal years.
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#136Yeah, GitHub is cooked. Now's a good time to consider migrating to alternative forges like Tangled ( https://tangled.sh ; bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder). We've got a more advanced PR flow, jujutsu change-id support and we just launched our in-house CI! https://blog.tangled.sh/ci Long-term, we aim to be the new social coding platform, collectively built in the open.
Damn, why all the downvotes?
Besides the plug, calling a company with $2B+ revenue "cooked" is annoying.
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see more people jump for Codeberg these days.
Or even better, claim full sovereignty (again) and install Forgejo ( https://forgejo.org/ ) on your own hardware. You'll get the same experience as Codeberg, because Codeberg is in fact running on Forgejo
OneDev (https://onedev.io/) is self-hostable, too, and works great.
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns. I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.
Just to think of a few, I want improved project management tools, better code review UI/UX, and cost-competitive integrated serverless hosting a la Vercel. GitHub could be a true one-stop shop with a bit more polish.
they have azure and they have github, being an cloudflare or vercel competitor is should be default and easy to achieve
idk why they didn't do that tbh, all ingredients are already there
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#139GitHub will now fall under Microsoft's CoreAI team, which give some indication of GitHub's purpose and direction going forward.
Some more indication: > “Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory,” said Parikh [the CoreAI team lead]. That Bill Gates analogy seems rather far-fetched, though.
That sounds horrible. Who wants that??
Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
#140I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over. Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads. .NET is now cros…
Not just that, but Microsoft's reputation is in the process of taking a nose dive over its human rights record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...