From what I've heard from Google employees Google is really stringent with their coding standards and they usually limit what you can do with the language. Like for C++ they don't even use half the fancy features C++ offers you because it's hard to reason about them.

I guess that policy makes sense but I feel like it takes out all the fun out of the job.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

As far as C++ goes, that's probably the only sane way to use the language.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just about any place I know that uses C++ also does that with C++ so that's nothing unusual for C++ specifically. It's too big of a language to reason about very well if you don't, so you've gotta find a subset that works.

[–] skeletorsass@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Too many patterns. If you do not do this every author will have a different use of the language and you will have to read a book of documentation each time you change files.