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Modern C++ is great, but unfortunately most people keep ignoring it, including some major contributors to ISO C++.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

By the way, do you know in C++20 how many ways there are to initialize a variable, without looking at ISO C++20 standard reference?

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I wouldn't say they are ignoring it. Case in the point that guide, you linked, recommends targeting recommends using C++17 which I think qualifies as modern. Compiler support for some of the newer features of C++2x hasn't matured yet.[0] That recommendation to avoid them seems sensible.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20

Except ISO C++17 doesn't prevent random devs to call malloc()/free()/strcpy()/.... so modern is relative.

After reading those guidelines, I suggest reading Google's own code on the context of Android.

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