Mark Barolak

That's fair, we can keep this open.

@derekmauro: There are routines for converting back and forth between absl::uint128 and hex strings that got dropped from the release. Nothing for decimal strings. This is definitely not ideal. We...

@Milerius: In the longer term, Abseil will add some functions to handle this efficiently. In the short term, I'm afraid you'd have to write your own function. I should point...

@Milerius: I was afraid you'd say that. Adding support for converting uint128 to and from strings is definitely something we need to do. It may take us a little while...

I haven't tried it, but that's extremely likely to go badly because the underlying types for absl::string_view are different in C++11 and C++17 compilation modes (https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/strings/string_view.h#L33). Can you give us...

Abseil supports compilers for 5 years, which includes a lot of versions of GCC for which C++14 is not the default. If Abseil changed the default C++ version, then users...