[fatihacet]

GitLab Frontend Engineer here. I was previously working at Koding.com which is an online IDE and I was the author of Koding's collaborative IDE. Koding's ultimate goal was moving your development workflow to the cloud. To do so Koding's IDE is capable of doing most of the things which Sublime Text can do. Beyond that it has massive collaboration feature built-in. We were thinking that we did the best online IDE and we were ready to replace it with our local IDEs or text editors. We tried really hard to do so but we realised that, it's almost impossible to replace pro users local and powerful stuff with something online. Been there done that before, it didn't work.

Hopefully, GitLab's idea is not replacing your local IDE. It is just for making things easier and we are doing our best to give you the most powerful tool out there. Although, it's currently in Beta state, I believe it's very useful when I want to go and fix a typo or change a simple thing in multiple files and do a quick commit.

One last thing is, please don't forget that, not only developers use GitLab. It's kinda easy for us to checkout the target branch and do some commits but this is a golden for not so technical folks.