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Bitbucket vs Google Code
March 11, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
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Bitbucket is a free code DVCS hosting site for Git and Mercurial. Manage your development with a hosted wiki, issue tracker and source code. Host, manage, and share Git and Mercurial repositories in the cloud. Free, unlimited private repositories for up to 5 developers give teams the flexibility to grow and code without restrictions.
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Google Developers is now the place to find all Google developer documentation, resources, events, and products. Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects.
Bitbucket and Google Code, in the grand cosmic scheme of things, are two digital realms where code wizards gather to summon repositories from the void. They both provide a mystical place where developers push, pull and occasionally curse at their own creations. Git, the sacred text of version control, is supported in both lands, along with issue tracking to chronicle the heroic quests (or tragic failures) of software development. And, of course, there are free and paid options, because even in the digital age, someone, somewhere, wants your money.
Bitbucket, a proud offspring of the ancient land of Australia, emerged in 2008, waving the Mercurial flag (until it forgot where it put it). Unlike its simpler cousin, it enjoys mingling with corporate entities, whispering secrets into the ears of Jira users and seamlessly blending with Atlassian’s kingdom. It thrives in an ecosystem of professional developers, offering them enterprise-grade features, and, crucially, it still exists, which is always a plus in the world of software.
Google Code, however, predates Bitbucket, having materialized in 2005 from the United States, like a well-intentioned but ultimately doomed experiment in open-source generosity. It welcomed Subversion and Mercurial alongside Git, hoping to be the one-stop-shop for public coding endeavors. But alas, in 2016, Google waved its mighty wand and—poof!—it was gone, leaving developers scrambling to relocate their work, much like suddenly discovering that your house has been moved to another dimension without your consent.
See also: Top 10 Source Code Management tools
Bitbucket, a proud offspring of the ancient land of Australia, emerged in 2008, waving the Mercurial flag (until it forgot where it put it). Unlike its simpler cousin, it enjoys mingling with corporate entities, whispering secrets into the ears of Jira users and seamlessly blending with Atlassian’s kingdom. It thrives in an ecosystem of professional developers, offering them enterprise-grade features, and, crucially, it still exists, which is always a plus in the world of software.
Google Code, however, predates Bitbucket, having materialized in 2005 from the United States, like a well-intentioned but ultimately doomed experiment in open-source generosity. It welcomed Subversion and Mercurial alongside Git, hoping to be the one-stop-shop for public coding endeavors. But alas, in 2016, Google waved its mighty wand and—poof!—it was gone, leaving developers scrambling to relocate their work, much like suddenly discovering that your house has been moved to another dimension without your consent.
See also: Top 10 Source Code Management tools
