The point is that it was GitHub that caught up for some simpler use-cases fairly recently, not the other way around. When I started using GitLab 6 years ago it made GitHub look like a toy where you had to reach for external services like Travis to do anything useful.
Fair enough, but the fact that GitLab was better 6 years ago doesn't do much to help the company right now.
I wasn't using GitLab 6 years ago so I can't comment on that, but I can comment that at least since 2022, I haven't found anything in GitLab that would recommend it over GitHub.
> Fair enough, but the fact that GitLab was better 6 years ago doesn't do much to help the company right now.
I don't think you got the point.
The whole point is that a couple of years ago GitLab was unquestionably the market leader and hands down the best service.
And since then it didn't got worse.
Best case scenario, alternatives like GitHub managed to put together similar offerings. That does not mean GitHub suddenly was the best. Far from it. Again, others in this thread used the term "mediocre" to describe GitHub, and this happens years after GitHub started to try to catch up.
To me, GitLab's CICD is by far the absolute best CICD system around. It has been like this for maybe a decade now. The container-centric approach to build jobs, a domain model for pipelines that is extremely simple and yet misses no usecase at all, UX that's unparalleled to the point that, unlike other CICD systems, doesn't even require a tutorial to get the basics to work... Things are so far apart that it boggles the mind how anyone who has any experience in CICD would even mention GitHub on the same sentence.
GitLab was the absolute best 6 years ago and, in spite of Microsoft's takeover of GitHub and rushing to bridge the gap, it still is. That's the whole point.
