Google open-source projects that you probably don't know

malkia · on Dec 27, 2009

We used to use google perftools at work - for hooking malloc, etc, and other things (general memory manager replacement). It used to work fine, until it start breaking on some Win Server machine (one of 100+ machines). We did not have time to find whether there is fix for it.

Also we had an idea of replacing perl that was embedded in one of our tools with JavaScript (V8) but the programmer that did that left just after finishing it, and without support we decided to stay with Perl.

est · on Dec 28, 2009

http://code.google.com/p/skia/

and the activex technology used in Chrome, forgot what's it called.

kingkilr · on Dec 28, 2009

Are you thinking of Native Client?

est · on Dec 28, 2009

Not NaCl. After some search it turned out to be ActiveX shim.

kgrin · on Dec 27, 2009

"On Google Code" != "Google open-source project"

jbyers · on Dec 27, 2009

I looked at about 10 of these that I hadn't seen before, and they're all either google-foo projects or their developers have @google.com email addresses.

pohl · on Dec 27, 2009

While that's certainly true, is there an item in he linked that serves as an example of such a non-google project?

I thought it was odd that they would omit Guice, Gin, and GWT from a list that includes Android and Chromium.

kgrin · on Dec 27, 2009

SpriteMe?

jbyers · on Dec 27, 2009

"Q: Who created SpriteMe? A: SpriteMe was created by Steve Souders" - http://spriteme.org/faq.php

Passes the @google.com test, though as with other projects, not clear the level of Google affiliation.

stse · on Dec 27, 2009

http://stevesouders.com/bio.php

blasdel · on Dec 28, 2009

The project has the 'google' label, so it's at least an official %20 project.

blasdel · on Dec 28, 2009

The 'google' tag for projects on Google Code is privileged, and all officially sponsored ones use it: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google

There is a higher level for official Products and hosted APIs where there is a full-fledged team behind it and a much higher level of support. Instead of being labeled projects, they have top level sites:

  http://code.google.com/appengine/
  http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
  http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
  http://code.google.com/apis/wave
  http://code.google.com/apis/gears/
  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/