Google is closing its programming project hosting service, Google Code, after nine years of operations. Google stopped users from creating new projects yesterday and will make existing project read-only this August, ahead of a complete closure scheduled for January 25th, 2016. The search giant says it started Google Code when project hosting options were limited, but since launch in 2006, it’s seen a “wide variety of better project hosting services” such as GitHub and Bitbucket rise to the forefront.
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