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I love how the Microsoft acquisition continues to result in increased investment in github with microsoft's resources, and real vision; not always how an acquisition goes.

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There was a moment where I thought GitLab was poised to start hitting critical mass and GitHub's best days were behind it, that was probably around right before or after the acquisition.

Microsoft has done a great job of actually improving the product and investing in it, something that seems to not happen most of the time with giant acquisitions.

GitHub today, at least for me, is definitely improved over the GitHub five or so years ago. It does feel like some things are bloated due to a push for feature after feature, but the core features have gotten better to the point I don't care. I just wish I didn't have to spend 2 minutes turning off all the annoying features I don't care about for small projects on every new repo I create.

(From a GitHub product manager) Thank you for this feedback about the pain of having to repeatedly change repo settings. It makes great sense that you'd want to repeat certain settings. Would it meet your needs if repository templates allowed you to have settings that got copied when you created a repo from the template (https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managin...)? I also wonder if you'd be interested in repository settings being settable in a text file. If you want to continue chatting about this it would be great if you could post it in GitHub's feedback discussions here: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/ge.... Thanks again!

Having some sort of repo config file (either account-wide or in the .github folder) would be very helpful.

Thanks for your helpful perspective, geerlingguy.

and a departure of all the key execs

what about it? That's not even a sentence.

Microsoft has always been a dev tool company.

I doubt that before WSL this would be something. I mean developing on windows was always far lot difficult than Linux or MacOS.

Win32 API isn't nice, but Microsoft was always relatively good with documentation etc. and don't forget all the developer support within Excel, VBA, Visual basic etc. Bill Gates early on understood the premise of building a platform and not breaking it. Even if that meant win32 API became ugly over time. Old windows programs still work on newer releases.

It depends on what you were developing.

You wouldn't know it looking at MS Visual Studio though.

What makes you say that? I love to hate on Microsoft, wouldn’t touch Windows with a 100ft pole, but I always give credit to Microsoft for VS, VS Code (and my favorite languages, TS and C#).

I admittedly haven’t used Visual Studio in a while (though I use VS Code daily) but I remember it as my favorite IDE. Certainly better than XCode, and I even preferred it to IntelliJ.

To the credit of teams past, SSMS still does not have an electron-based equal (azure data studio will get there its not there yet).

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