| The search giant is closing down Google Code because there are other alternatives available on the web. 'Google Code' was a new competitive alternative to SourceForge for open-source project hosting. |  |
Google launched the project in 2006 because it was unhappy with the "limited" options available to the open source community. But since launch in 2006, it's seen as a "wide variety of better project hosting services" such as GitHub and Bitbucket rise to the forefront.
In May 2013, Google also shut down Google Code Download services. To "meet developers where they are," Google itself has transferred nearly a thousand of its own open-source projects to the popular coding repository GitHub.
Github isn't just a place to download, it has become a fantastic and integral part of the development process in a way that neither Sourceforge nor Google Code ever truly offered or enabled. The migration of developers to new services has left Google Code dealing with a deluge of spam and abuse.
The end of Google Code is coming in a timed approach. As of 12 March all new project creation has been disabled. On 24 August, the site goes read-only and the site will effectively disappear on 25 January , 2016.
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