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Slightly off-topic but is this official, and if so...why is Google hosting stuff on Github Pages? Seems sort of amateurish. Not to mention it belongs to a rival
by lordgrenville 6y ago
Slightly off-topic but is this official, and if so...why is Google hosting stuff on Github Pages? Seems sort of amateurish. Not to mention it belongs to a rival of theirs.
- Jtsummers 6y agoGitHub hasn't always been owned by MS, I believe this was up on GitHub before the acquisition (along with a lot of other Google content after they closed up Google Code). And yes, it's official. Google acquired ITA which was rather famous as a Common Lisp shop. This meant that they had acquired a substantial Common Lisp codebase. If you drop the document from the URL you end up at [0] which includes links to other language style guides. [0] https://google.github.io/styleguide/ https://google.github.io/styleguide/
- slenk 6y agoGoogle doesn't have a product like that...
- cbarrick 6y agoGoogle moved a lot of their open source projects to GitHub after they shut down Google Code. That was before the MS acquisition. You can find a lot of smaller projects at https://github.com/google https://github.com/google, and obviously there are some big ones like https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow. Notable exceptions are Android and Fuchsia, which have their own hosted git repos at https://{android,fuschia}.googlesource.com https://{android,fuschia}.googlesource.com.
- lordgrenville 6y agoThanks for clarifying. It makes sense to host repos on GitHub - it's so widespread - but what struck me as weird was using the.github.io domain, which I usually associate with amateur bloggers who don't want the hassle of registering a domain.
- jgodbout 6y agoMost Google open sourced code is on Github. Generally the code made by developers isn't "official" it's just code (documents) made by people at Google.