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Re:Software Engineering at Google by flohofwoe on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:31AM (#37121473)
I can't think of a single C++ library coming out of Google I had to deal with and where I didn't have massive problems integrating them into my own C++ projects because of all the Google specialties baked into those projects (their own weird build tools which don't seem to have changed much since the early 2000's and the use of other Google dependencies like abseil).

Maybe it works well inside Google, but definitely not in the real world.

Re:Software Engineering at Google by DoingIsLearning on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:01PM (#37122600)
Off the top of my head I used FlatBuffers in quite a few projects many moons ago and that was pretty seamless.

Arguably it was a bit thin on documentation but it just worked.