Comment by Karan Sharma on "Ask anything to GitLab"

Karan Sharma

Freelancer

Sep 21, 2017

Hi, Dmitriy, Thanks for the AMA.

People might have asked you this question thousands of times previously, but I want to hear your opinion on it.

Why should a developer (not so famous) choose to go with GitLab instead of GitHub in 2017? GitHub has many users today, so the chances of getting more visibility are definitely higher if they opted to go with GitHub.

Dmitriy Zaporozhets

CTO at GitLab

Sep 27, 2017

If you need to store private projects, GitLab seems like a good place to do so (unlimited private projects)
If you want fully integrated development. Code hosting, build docker image, store it, test code, deploy it etc.

We still have the long road ahead to achieve good visibility in sense of public projects compared to GitHub. But it's getting better year over year.

If still in doubt - you can do development on one platform and mirror to another (GitLab.com has nice mirror feature) to achieve both rich functionality and public visibility.

Job van der Voort

VP of Product at GitLab

Sep 27, 2017

I'd say for you to use the tool where you get things done the quickest (GitLab) and just mirror your repository to GitHub (or BB) if you want the most visibility.

GitLab is not just for hosting your code. It has a very powerful issue tracker, and full CI/CD built-in. That means you can test, deploy in the same place as you have your code. And that saves so much time and effort. It's also completely free for open source projects (everything), CI/CD included. You can even use our Docker Registry to host your Docker images.

Have a look at our comparisons (https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/) or even better - give it a try!

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