4 Free Code Snippets Hosting Sites

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4 Free Code Snippets Hosting Sites

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Most of us would be familar about the project hosting sites like sourceforge, github etc. These sites hosts the complete project, documentation and has a means to track bugs etc. Sometimes we may need to host the simple pieace of code which we may be want to share it with our friends or to post the link in the forum to discuss more about the code. Below are the details about the code snippet hosting sites.

DZone Snippets: This site is a part of DZone. It has more than 6000 snippets in all languages.

Syntax Coloring:	It has default syntax coloring for all languages.
Access Control:	All code posted is available for Public.
Languages Supported:	All languages are supported. User need to add corresponding tag
Tag Support:	Yes.
Search facility:	Yes.
URL:	http://snippets.dzone.com/

Gist: This site is a part of GitHub. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository. One or more files could be added to the same link. It also provides a link to embed the code to our site.

Syntax Coloring:	Yes. It does for specific language.
Access Control:	Option is available to make the post public or private.
Languages Supported:	Most of the languages are supported.
Tag Support:	Yes.
Search facility:	Yes.
URL:	https://gist.github.com/

PasteBin: Anonymous user could also post the code. Versioning is supported. It has API support to add new post. It also provides a link to embed the code to our site.

Syntax Coloring:	Yes. It does for specific language.
Access Control:	Option is available to make the post public or private.
Languages Supported:	Most of the languages are supported.
Tag Support:	No.
Search facility:	Yes.
URL:	http://pastebin.com/

Ideone: Ideone is something more than a pastebin; it's an online compiler and debugging tool which allows to compile and run code online in more than 40 programming languages. API support is alao available.

Syntax Coloring:	Yes. It does for specific language.
Access Control:	Option is available to make the post public or private.
Languages Supported:	Most of the languages are supported.
Tag Support:	No.
Search facility:	Yes.
URL:	http://www.ideone.com/

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