GitLab team member here. There is more context in this blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/ https://about.gitl

GitLab team member here. There is more context in this blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-g... The TLDR is that the Web IDE is a widely used feature (tens of millions of commits have been made using it) and building our new Web IDE with VS Code will allow us to invest in extending the experience to be more tightly integrated with GitLab and the DevOps workflow rather than re-creating VS Code features in our Web IDE.