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Google is weird, they want to conquer Cloud market but they dont do anything like VSCode or Github in dev community.

In 10 years Google regret not buying Github.

Google had a viable GitHub competitor at one point. But they let it languish and then shut it down. It's a familiar story.

What was that called?

Google Code: https://code.google.com/archive/

Oh. I thought you were talking about a viable GitHub competitor ;)

What made it unviable except letting it languish and then shutting it down?

It had what was essentially an HTML4 UI and just SVN support for what seems like forever. I can't remember a version of it that didn't look like 2005 Gmail.

Hence "languish". When it was first made available in 2006, it wasn't an also-ran.

It was the go-to for hosting small projects for a time, back then.

>In 10 years Google regret not buying Github.

They regretted it the day it was announced.

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