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hi, author of those slides here, I actually mention this during the talk, that the talk is over-emphesizing the awesome point to take a point across. It definat

hi, author of those slides here, I actually mention this during the talk, that the talk is over-emphesizing the awesome point to take a point across. It definately is not a technique to use everywhere, so I agree with you. It works for some kind of projects and i was motiviated for this talk, because I saw so many projects using manyrepos in cases where it may not fit very well.

fsloth 11y ago
Hi, yeah, sure, effective communication requires simplification. A few points got me concerned in the slides - namely, concerning emphasizing how easy this makes to change things. I would consider that it is not a positive thing that adding a library is cheap and easy, and I find that component versioning can be bypassed even more so. It all sounds like grievous local greedy optimization without a view of the entire lifecycle of the codebase. The slides say change is the only constant. I would claim that unless the change is backed by good and strong architecture - which throwing all architectural firewalls away does not support - then the end result will be a mess of spaghetti the older the codebase gets. But, I may just be too much set in my ways of coding and I respect the fact that these may be non-issues in the particular domain these slides address.