No, not only because it’s “social coding” done right. But because the ecosphere around GitHub is alive and thriving. We have Travis CI to build around the clock. We have Read the Docs to re-generate Sphinx documentation on each push. We have Coveralls.io to check the test coverage and we will have gitter to have instant, per-repo support chat.

Yes everything is in the “cloud” and yes I could setup local alternatives. But I don’t want to care about infrastructure. I want to churn out commit after commit. Thanks everyone for making that a slick experience.