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I wonder how many users will come to depend on it before they shut it down.
by donw 10y ago
I wonder how many users will come to depend on it before they shut it down.
- gravypod 10y agoGoogle reader will always be missed.
- iagooar 10y agoI give it 2 years. Maybe only 18 months. I don't even know how many different (and confusing!) chat applications Google has launched already. Seems like their engineers, when they get bored, write a chat app.
- flukus 10y agoNext time I see someone mention how great their monolithic repository is I'll ask how many chat applications you have to checkout before you can code at google.
- justinlardinois 10y agoThere was an article posted on here a few months ago about Google's version control system. One of the main features is that you don't actually checkout copies of every file in the repository; instead they're faulted in as you need them. My impression is that the monolithic repository only works because Google's built a bunch of custom tooling to support it. It doesn't mean any company can just roll all of their code into a single Git repository and call it a day.
- kyrra 10y agoThis maybe? http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-sto... The key here is CITC. All the source code lives "in the cloud" and pulls to your machine as it's needed (using a FUSE file system).
- justinlardinois 10y agoYes, that's it, and that's the key feature I was talking about.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNew Google Ecosystems: Not even once.
- 1_2__3 10y agoThey should code name the next one "stillborn".
- dimino 10y agoThis is overblown, the biggest thing they did this to was Reader, and that was hardly an "ecosystem" app without any way to use a stand-in replacement within minutes.
- kuschku 10y agoYou do realize reader had comment sections, likes, etc? It was a full-blown social network for a while.