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abseil

brew install abseil v20260107.1 Apache-2.0

C++ shared library providing common utilities for strings, containers, synchronization, and time handling.

Why you might care

Abseil is Google's foundational C++ library used across many projects; it offers modern, well-tested replacements for std library gaps and provides performance-critical utilities like flat_hash_map and thread-safe operations. Most developers use it as a build dependency rather than directly, but linking against it is necessary for any C++ project that depends on libraries built with Abseil.

Categories

library cpp-library

Alternatives

Boost C++ Standard Library LLVM libcxx
49.3k
30-day installs · #128
146.1k
90-day · #143
693.0k
365-day · #97

Build dependencies

cmake googletest

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