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Large source bases take time to build, and if they're large now, started before those features became widely available. But look around a bit -- you'll find plenty of equivalents. Chromium has its own smart pointers library, and there's a good chance that they'll start shifting to the standard stuff over time.



You also have companies which jump on the google style guide bandwagon.

It's a fine guide, but it was written for google and has some stuff in there as a result of that (no exceptions being on example).




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