Chromium's base/ and the various copies of it (ex. inside net/) are derived from a very old fork of the code inside Google that became abseil. In some places it

Chromium's base/ and the various copies of it (ex. inside net/) are derived from a very old fork of the code inside Google that became abseil. In some places it's like looking backwards in time, in others the two have diverged naturally as folks have worked on them separately.