Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here (and the person who was behind cake to GitHub Codespaces). Indeed it is exactly related to that. Always was a fan of the idea of cake being shipped between product teams and the launch of Codespaces was a perfect chance to start a new tradition!
I would be v.happy to send cake (or macaroons) to the VSCode team as well but don’t have contacts. If you are in the team lemme know.
Ok that's cute, but hn guidelines say the the post title should match the published title. The flexibility is for necessary shortening or scrubbing clickbait, not for editorializing.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Another flavor of the "focused startup vs. big company portfolio" story. A small, scrappy team can do incredible things and find product-market fit despite having a gargantuan competitor. A big company can lose the plot with big staffing overheads, internal politics, and being tugged in a million different directions by users/customers. Of course a big company can also be laser-focused and leverage their vast cash sums and engineering weight to dominate the space. But in my experience, that's pretty rare.
GitHub isn't the only VCS provider. There's GitLab and SourceHut and there will likely be more in the future as standards coalesce. That's where open source thrives: strong and proven standards. Once VCS hosting becomes fairly standardized then Open Source will take over and the innovation cycle will start again.
continue to drive open source. continue to believe there's a non-proprietary community worth investing in. continue moving the ball forward & making microsoft also have to keep open sourcing.
it's less about what's their survival plan, and more about what the rest of all of us are going to do with vscode taking over the planet.
