Are there any good places to get examples for the C++ Google Style Guide?
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1Do you plan to work at Google? – fredoverflow Jun 17 '10 at 14:06
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1Nope. The company I work for told me that these are pretty close to the standards that we're going to use for writing C++ code. – leeand00 Jun 17 '10 at 14:08
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2FWIW, the Google C++ guides are not necessarily good for anybody else. They were designed for Google's purposes and situations. Just because Google is a highly successful high-tech company doesn't mean that what's good for it is good for everybody. – David Thornley Jun 17 '10 at 14:22
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4I pity you, C with Objects is certainly not a language I wish to work with. – Matthieu M. Jun 17 '10 at 14:34
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1@David Please tell this to my superiors. I have no choice in the matter. – leeand00 Jun 17 '10 at 14:43
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Google open sources a number of projects, most of which comply with their style guides:
- protocol buffers
- re2 - pcre regular expressions
- perf tools - multithreaded performance analysis tools
- gflags - command line flags
Search Google code for google projects, and you'll find a lot!

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http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/coding-style http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/
The source code for Chrome should theoretically follow their standards :)

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From the first page: `Chromium follows the Google C++ Style Guide unless an exception is listed below.`. So Chromium does not entirely follow the Google Style, therefore it's probably not the best reference code. – MOnsDaR Aug 24 '20 at 11:14