What was Google’s Empire State Building of refactors? From @TitusWinters, Principal…
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What was Google’s Empire State Building of refactors? From @TitusWinters, Principal Software Engineer & co-author of Software Engineering at Google: "I would defend pretty strongly that the work was probably the largest refactoring task in human history. Abseil was basically the layer of common C++ idiom. This is the vernacular that everything at Google is written out of. Let's open-source that so that there's a common substrate for all Google tech. We had like 10 or 12 people working full time with world-class tools that no one else understands yet, just cleaning up and making sure that id
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