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google / re2
RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library.
protocolbuffers / protobuf
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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Last push2026-10-022026-11-07
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Repository created2014-08-182014-08-26
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First collected2026-11-032026-11-03
LanguageC++C++
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