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You really think Google's scale actually benefits significantly from comunity libraries? At that scale it must be a nitghmare to use third party code. Hell the

• kerkeslager 9y ago
  Of course. They don't have to import a library as a package, as most are BSD they can just use the code. And even if they use dependencies, dependency management can be simplified by only importing mature, conservative libraries. Most problems developers have with dependencies are caused by importing every 0.x versioned library in i.e. NPM and plugging together a bunch of buggy leaky abstractions.