If you look at google's coding standards you can see the restrictions that they put into place. Keep in mind, though, that reasons for many of those restrictio

If you look at google's coding standards you can see the restrictions that they put into place. Keep in mind, though, that reasons for many of those restrictions have to do with maintaining compatibility. This may not be as much of an issue with newer projects. OTOH, Google's coding standards is probably the most thorough, well documented, clear, and easily available set of C++ coding standards out there. For this reason, I don't think it would be a horrible decision to use them for a new project.