Yet another Google project thrown away... That being said, unlike other ones that they have nuked, Google Code makes a fairly sound argument to just use Github. Maybe there's some details/licensing/features I'm missing though.

Google code hasn't been a thing for a while. They started the closure years ago. Which is too bad, it was a decent service when it started.

I'm waiting for SourceForge to shut down next. They recently added an option where you can host your actual code at Github and just use SourceForge for everything else - but I doubt that will be enough to keep users (and sponsors) around.

I never really liked the interface that Google Code had. I always found it difficult to navigate. I'm still partial to BitBucket for my project hosting needs.

The cancelled Google project that I miss most is their real estate listings. It was very helpful back in 2010 when I was looking for a house. You could go onto maps and click on the Real Estate overlay and see where houses for sale were on the map. Very cool and easy to use. (Others have imitated it, but the experience is nowhere near as good as what Google had.)

What will Google cancel next? Voice?

That sounds useful. It's too bad Google canceled it. Another service I saw a lot of potential in was Click-to-Call, which provided free, instantaneous calls to businesses listed on Google Maps. I only managed to use the service over the course of a month or so before it was quietly canceled. The whining of phone companies factored into this decision.

I'll be sad if SourceForge dies away, though I suppose that's been coming ever since Dice bought them out. The same goes for Slashdot.

So what you're saying is reddit is the new 4chan? Of course its almost always been that. There's a reason I've avoided it.

What happens to those half-written, mostly abandoned projects that are only hosted on Google Code?. If the site closes and with no developer in sight that means that you won't be able to get that project anymore, right?. I guess there must be a handful of useful projects that might face this scenario.

About SourceForge, I've never been a registered user but I used to participate in some project forums when you could sign in with your OpenID, then one day it stopped working. Too bad, I guess it shows one more of the problems that the site faces with its users.

Google said that new projects are no longer accepted. They are going to disable writes in a couple of months (IIRC), making it read-only for 6 months or something like that, after which time it will still be possible to export all of the data. After that it will be completely shut down. There is plenty of time to rescue any data you want from the site. Most of those half-written sites obviously weren't important enough to keep. Or else, like myself, their developers have probably already imported the code into GitHub or Bitbucket: Google Code vs. GitHub.

I think that used to be the case

Good riddance to IE.

It'd be nice... except every time someone does a "clean" branch tends to introduce new problems.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Let's hope the new IE is nothing like all of the rest of their software. Because if it's anything like Visual Studio, Word, Excel, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics NAV, Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, Windows 8, or any of their support tools for running those products, it's going to be a terrible, bloated piece of junk with tons of compatibility issues that I'll have to solve for my clients. Clients (and even my Boss) who won't understand why it takes so damn long, and so many obscure articles to read, and even custom SDK code just to get their products to do something like import data without long-standing internal bugs damaging the data.

Some people see that as job security. At 25K/year, I see that as a miserable existence that I don't get paid enough to deal with.