> It’s well-known among developer tools creators, for example, that integrating with GitHub and GitLab will help make your tool much more useful and appealing.

> It’s well-known among developer tools creators, for example, that integrating with GitHub and GitLab will help make your tool much more useful and appealing. Certainly not for me personally, nor for the 10 or so companies I've worked for as a freelancer over the last 10 years. Among them are some - real - market leaders as well as small and fine companies that are extremely demanding when it comes to self-used technology (including development tools, of course). Just look at who the owners of github (most people know it) and especially gitlab (most people don't) are. More generally, just the single arbitrary picked difference between one company producing something tangible and another producing a pure software product should be eye-opening to anyone who has had both types of experiences. As for my career path, I've worked in instrumentation, avionics, cars, and Embedded, among others. Each with a very different culture, even among themselves, not to mention compared to software companies.