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Google has announced that it is closing its open-source project hosting service, Google Code, and will be moving projects to GitHub.
Google Code, which was launched in 2006, has been running under the GitHub shadow for several years now. The search engine giant announced, Saturday, that this project has been disabled and that the site will become "read-only" in August.
The service will completely shut-down on January 2016.
In the company's blog, Google open source director Chris DiBonaof announced, "When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited.
According to DiBonaog, Google is their worry about reliability and stagnation prompted them to take action through the provision of the open source community another option to choose from.
"Since then, we've seen a wide variety of better project hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket bloom," DiBonaof added. "Numerous projects have moved away from Google Code towards several other systems. In order to meet developers wherever they are, we ourselves migrated approximately a thousand of our own open source projects from Google Code to GitHub."
DiBonaof has also announced that Bitbucket and GitHub are looking forward to collaborating work with numerous developers from Google Code.
Meanwhile, Google is not the only company to move projects to GitHub. Microsoft revealed in January that it's moving "Roslyn" compiler platform to GitHub from CodePlex. The ".NET" Compiler Platform provides Visual Basic and open-source C# compilers with a rich code analysis of APIs.
With this data, developers could now build code analysis tools with a similar APIs that the Microsoft is utilizing to execute their Visual Studio, the eWeek reported.
