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> I can only speak regarding my experience at Google, but the company has been moving aggressively toward industry standards for software development, primarily
by ra7 6y ago
> I can only speak regarding my experience at Google, but the company has been moving aggressively toward industry standards for software development, primarily at the language level.
Why now? What were technical reasons this wasn’t done before at Google?
- skybrian 6y agoIn some cases, the outside world hadn’t settled on a standard when the code was first written, or it wasn’t that good yet.
- danans 6y agoExactly. For example, like many companies, Google had smart pointer implementations in its C++ codebase almost from its inception, but they didn't appear in the C++ standard until C++11.