Inside Google there's a C++ library of many common utilities called "base". The base in Chromium is an ancient fork of it that's evolved within the Chromium cod

Inside Google there's a C++ library of many common utilities called "base". The base in Chromium is an ancient fork of it that's evolved within the Chromium codebase over many years. Abseil is another descendant of the Google internal base library. WTF (Web Template Framework) is the similar library from WebKit, that also exists in Blink, though the two are quite different these days.