I doubt it. The market is diverse enough to enjoy both products. I like Bird (in San Antonio) and hope that it either gets acquired by Lyft or becomes strong independently.
One of my favorite features from GitLab is, without having to install any other tool, I can get a link from the response to create my MR. Such a simple feature, yet so convenient.
If you push a new branch to a GitLab project, we return a URL to immediately create a merge requests, which appears in the Git output in your terminal. So rather than going to GitLab, then clicking on a button, you just click the link in your shell.
Programming, as it stands today, exists in two forms. There are those that program just do it for the cash and there are those that do it for the love of the art. Code is the spell, the text editor is the wand, and the programmer is the magician.
