Monday, June 4, 2018

Devs are flooding to GitLab amidst Github Microsoft acquisition rumors


Last night, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has acquired GitHub. The deal is still unconfirmed by both parties (I asked, they said “no comment“), but it’s believed Microsoft will announce it later today. Suffice to say, not everyone is happy about it. A quick search on Twitter finds countless people proclaiming that Github is dead, and promising to move to rival services — like GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket. It seems some are making good on their promises. GitLab says it’s seeing ten times the usual normal daily amount of repositories. We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM…

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