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Re:Uber, after buying Postmates, lays off more than 180 empl... by ra7 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:18AM (#25890046)
> 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?

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Re:Uber, after buying Postmates, lays off more than 180 empl... by skybrian on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:30AM (#25890107)
In some cases, the outside world hadn’t settled on a standard when the code was first written, or it wasn’t that good yet.
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Re:Uber, after buying Postmates, lays off more than 180 empl... by danans on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:21PM (#25895519)
Exactly. 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.
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