Could Venus have ever supported life ?

Venus is closer to the sun than Earth and rotates so slowly that even with a earthlike atmosphere, it would have soon got roasted and any water around would only exist as vapour.

Venus is closer to the sun than Earth and rotates so slowly that even with a earthlike atmosphere, it would have soon got roasted and any water around would only exist as vapour. Infact the article itself doesn't refer to life on planet Venus NOW, but bilion of years ago. Who says that its core structure, it's distance from the Sun and the roation spin have always been the same? Of course nowadays Venus, with the features you mentioned, is no way a possible host for any kind of life (carbon + water related at least)

It's possible for Venus to have extremophile microbial lifeforms.