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Being able to search code so efficiently across the whole company’s code base is a huge productivity gain. But I found people who hasn’t worked in Google or oth
by dabei 8y ago
Being able to search code so efficiently across the whole company’s code base is a huge productivity gain. But I found people who hasn’t worked in Google or other companies that have this capability generally don’t believe it’s a big deal.
- kngspook 8y agoWell, you need to have a fairly large codebase with a fair amount of in-house infrastructure and interdependencies before you have both the need to find code that you're not working on and have a dense enough source tree where search makes more sense than just learning the organization and navigating to where you need to go.
- joatmon-snoo 8y agoHonestly, it's not even the monorepo and tooling. Simply the ability to navigate our code IDE-style in the browser, and move back and forth between different revisions, makes a huge difference. I've been mucking around with some code in javac recently and was trying to show someone something I'd found, and browsing the openjdk mercurial repo was just so painful compared to hunting around google3.