December 9, 2020 - https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html · Google requires all code to go through code review, so to avoid time being wasted by style disputes or reviews being sent back for style-only changes, style disputes are essentially banned. Anything that can be enforced by an auto-formatter ...

February 2, 2014 - I've never understood this one: adding `default` just prevents the compiler from telling you when you forgot to handle a particular case...in which case (heh), why use a switch statement at all? What are you buying over a series of if-else statements, other than possible code reuse due to the ...

February 13, 2023 - Defaults are useful when you are providing a library function for other teams to use. If you’re inside a more private code base and doing work on the implementation of your team’s service then it is wise to avoid default arguments · The problem is they provide a point after which it seems ...

December 4, 2018 - Yes, those are the cases where it isn't possible to avoid forward declarations, so it's fine to use them · No, globals like that are very problematic, so much so that there is a clang warning specifically to detect these (-Wexit-time-destructors). exit runs global destructors, so if one thread ...

April 11, 2014 - But it's not exactly a style guide I'd follow strictly in a new project/team · It's like, do you know C++ or don't you? Value semantics are C++

January 3, 2023 - As someone much more experienced in other languages like Python and Swift, my biggest surprise when using C++ is that the language standard and the compiler are two different things. In Python, the default CPython interpreter is the standard - if it's not in CPython, it's not standard Python.

July 22, 2016 - Would the use exceptions if they could do it again

July 22, 2022 - Inspired by: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/w46m73/how_far_could_you_get_without_google · That's still the case, but it feels like today's software development reality is different. There are endless frameworks, apis, devops methods, scalability concerns, and n+1 standards with which ...

August 16, 2023 - A lot of other companies get into trouble trying to cargo-cult what Google does when they are operating in very different environments wherein those practices aren't optimal. E.g. different levels of scale · Additionally, critics of Google may point out that their engineering culture may not ...

March 10, 2019 - LLVM A style complying with the LLVM coding standards · Google A style complying with Google’s C++ style guide

August 5, 2021 - I was asked to do a task that eventually boiled down to a topological sort, and I thought the question consisted of recognizing that the answer was a topological sort and moving on because it was over the phone · However, that was not the case. The interviewer wanted me to code it all out ...

March 22, 2020 - For example the book has a section called "How Code Review Works At Google." And it goes on to describe strictly the google3 process. But Chrome, ChromeOS, GoogleX, others have different processes. If Google has a proven model, why do so many of its projects deviate from it · During my time ...

June 18, 2014 - I'd rather have a very small company-wide style guide of maybe 10 points which mainly cares about the public interface of a project. One project might not be able to switch to C++11, but another new project from scratch might decide to make use of all the C++11 bells'n'whistles · When choosing ...

May 29, 2016 - The development side of things are also better. All of these open-sourced, internet-networked tools/libraries/languages allow you to build really powerful stuff really quickly. Yes, there is a huge quality and maintenance problem, with lots of people writing libraries they instantly abandon, ...

March 18, 2020 - It used to be that you had to do a "readability review" which was a large change that you developed specifically to gain readability in some language. A style reviewer would approve it after (usually) many rounds of comments, and then thereafter you had C++ readability forever · More recently ...

June 12, 2021 - But then the person RUNNING the program will only see this: · Abort trap: 6 And that's all the info you'll get from their bug report

November 13, 2024 - But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I'm writing. If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment · So basically, it's a helpful ...

April 23, 2011 - I'll credit this with a major shift in my thinking about what constitutes "good" programming. From the outside, I looked at Google and thought "wow, they're accomplishing amazing things, they must have amazing engineering practices". And yeah, things are pretty rigorous...but what I found was ...

December 25, 2018 - Found under "Foundations of programming" -- this is exactly the type of problem I'd expect as question one under this section. When it's made by Googlers, that is · I make a lot of cool stuff day to day, and usually that requires a lot of code and knowledge about programming and topics that ...

February 20, 2023 - 1. https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do · https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/