Why #GitHub Embraces Competitor Integrations | #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #Developer #Shorts

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throughout like modern software development, more people building more tools is only a good thing for software developers. And I know sometimes that comes off as like a throwaway, but it's true. I don't use the same coding editor that I used when I started. Things change, things evolve, you know, and that gets us to a better place where I'm able to write better code or I get to solve problems I couldn't solve before. And I think, you know, every time we're able to like open up more or allow integration or partner with other companies and teams to integrate, you know, their products in or push them to continue to open and integrate. It's only a net positive for software devs. And so, when we say, you know, GitHub's the home for all developers, there's something really meaningful to that in what could just be a throwaway tagline. It's that to be the home you have to invite everyone in. And there's moments and discussions and strategy where that's scary, right? Where, you know, you realize, well, if we do that, then ultimately we're allowing for folks to actually have developer choice, something we care about, but it can be scary when you're running a product business, you know? At the end of the day, it drives us to, you know, figure out, okay, well, who exactly are we trying to serve? How can we make that better? And how do we make it so that we're choosing to use our tool, not that you have to use the tool because, you know, it was purchased or like, you know, whatever. But developer first means when your employer buys GitHub, you, the developer, have to love to use GitHub, not just the person who made the decision to buy it, you know? And so, when there's other, you know, IDEs, other AI tools, other coding agents, that's all fine because, I mean, ultimately, as we've done many, many times now, we create APIs and we, you know, let you use your data how you'd like. We let you, you know, you're going to use whatever observability tools, CI tools, etc. And, you know, slowly but surely, that will continue to be the way we kind of write the next chapter of GitHub. We figure it out and we open it up and developers will always choose, and fighting that is a losing battle because then, you know, there's moments where you are the only tool, you're the best tool, you're the tool du jour, you know, but you have to let, you know, devs are going to devs have to choose. I don't want anyone telling me what terminal to use or what IDE to use, what computer to use, what operating system to use. Like, there's different reasons for different people, and that's I think what makes our, you know, kind of career so unique.