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I always thought people had a positive view on abseil, never used it myself other than when tinkering on random projects. What's the main issue?

• usrnm 1y ago
  The thing is a huge pain to manage as a dependency, especially if you wander away from the official google-approved way of doing things. Protobuf went from a breeze to use to the single most common source of build issues in our cross-platform project the moment they added this dependency. It's so bad that many distros and package managers keep the pre-abseil version as a separate package, and many just prefer to get stuck with it rather than upgrade. Same with other google libraries that added abseil as a dependency, as far as I'm aware
  • mkoubaa 1y ago
    I'd rather they just used the abseil headers they needed with the abseil license at the top than make it a build dependency. The concept of a package is antithetical to C++ and no amount of tooling can fix that.
    • usrnm 1y ago
      abseil is not header-only, though
      • mkoubaa 1y ago
        Skill issue
  • jjmarr 1y ago
    I like abseil besides the compile times. Not having to specialize my own hash when using maps is nice.