> I wish I could understand the value add of yet another IDE. I was in the same boat as you, when Atom and VS Code was gaining a lot of popularity. For the li

> I wish I could understand the value add of yet another IDE. I was in the same boat as you, when Atom and VS Code was gaining a lot of popularity. For the life of me, I couldn't understand why GitHub and Microsoft was throwing SO MUCH money at their FREE editor. If you look at the contributors for both Atom and VS Code: https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=Microsoft/vscode::atom/atom#b%3Dgithub%3AMicrosoft%2Fvscode%3Amaster%3A%3Agithub%3Aatom%2Fatom%3Amaster%26t%3Dcontributors%26rg%3Dhistory https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=Microsoft/vscod... And search for @microsoft.com (use ctrl+f, if you are in windows and search for @microsoft.com), you can see that there are 27 matches. And if you search for @github.com, you can see that there are 41 matches. This is a lot of expensive developer time for a free editor, but this appears to be the current strategy to gain developer mine share. For me personally, I'm completely happy with just using Vim, but I think my way of thinking is no longer the norm. What GitLab is doing makes sense, and I think it's a requirement, to ensure they don't find themselves with their pants down. I would have to imagine, Microsoft and GitHub, has enough data to back such a huge commitment and it only makes sense that GitLab follows suit. I also think it's kind of interesting how GitLab is approaching this. By integrating it into their Git hosting solution (GitLab), they are able to provide a unique workflow for developers, that Microsoft and GitHub, currently cannot. Worst case scenario for GitLab, is they detach the IDE from GitLab. Best case scenario, is they create a competitive edge, by integrating the IDE so tightly with GitLab.