


Our goal was to make it easy for anyone to contribute, regardless of their development experience. Way back in April 2018, GitLab 10.7 introduced the web IDE to the world and brought a lovely multi-file editor to the heart of the GitLab experience. According to a survey by the Stack Overflow platform, more than 70% of developers use the VS Code editor, which is licensed under the MIT license, when writing code. GitLab developers tried to understand what makes it difficult to fully work in the web IDE and came to the conclusion that the point is not the lack of specific features, but a combination of minor flaws in the interface and working methods. Using the VS Code editor will simplify project development in the GitLab interface and allow developers to use a full-featured and familiar code editing tool.Ī survey of GitLab users showed that the web IDE is excellent to make small changes but few people use it for full coding. Recently the launch of the new version of collaborative development platform Git Lab 15.0 and of the most notable changes that stand out from this version, is the intention in future releases es replace web code editor built-in IDE with the Visual Studio Code editor (VS Code) developed by Microsoft with the participation of the community.
