CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “Hands-On With Abseil”

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An introduction to the design and compatibility goals for Abseil - Google's new common C++ libraries project. I'll summarize some style points and policies that affect Abseil and its users, and demo hands-on many of the debugging features of the library.
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Titus Winters: Google, C++ Codebase Cultivator

Titus Winters has spent the past 6 years working on Google's core C++ libraries. He's particularly interested in issues of large scale software engineer and codebase maintenance: how do we keep a codebase of over 100M lines of code consistent and flexible for the next decade? Along the way he has helped Google teams pioneer techniques to perform automated code transformations on a massive scale, and helps maintain the Google C++ Style Guide.
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[prezadent]

Titus is a master of vocal fry.
4:07 - 4:18 for an example of the master at his best.

[botetescribavicentej.]

Have we missed explicit namespaces (N1691)?

[otko]

38:32 what a strange pattern. why not just static std::string s = "Hello"? what is the point of allocating a string and then returning it by reference?

[dipi]

Do C++ projects like Abseil have a future at Google, considering the very reasons for introducing Go in the first place?