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While I agree that Google Code, as it is right now, isn't needed anymore, I believe there is still room for innovation in this space and I wish there were more players than github, pushing the boundaries harder.

As a software developer is a tool that we use all day.

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Among others, there's gitlab.com and bitbucket.com (and also mercurial, as an alternative to git itself -- though the two can push/pull between each other's repos with the right plugin).

Yes, I've installed a gitlab for my company and I'm extremely happy with it, I feel like I've much more control: authentication, authorization, how our projects are organised, etc. We are currently using both private repos on github and gitlab on aws.

Regarding mercurial, I used it a lot and hosted lot of things on bitbucket 4 years ago, but now I use git a lot more, just because it is what most of the libraries and opensource projects I use are using.

Great to hear you like GitLab!

Take a look at Kallithea.

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