[xarball]

I followed a few links to Abseil:

> Consisting of the foundational C++ and Python code at Google, Abseil includes libraries that will grow to underpin other Google-backed open source projects like gRPC, Protobuf and TensorFlow.

This library already seems like it is suffering from scope-creep. Tensorflow, gRPC, and Protobuf are hardly related to improving the C++ standard. Why are these even in the same library at all?

[ndh2]

They're not. They will be using Abseil.

[perfmode]

Google needs to open source its core C++ libraries if it is going to open source the projects that depend on the core libraries.

[misnome]

“Underpin” e.g. those libraries will use Abseil as a common base.