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You’re definitely warm. I worked at Dropbox around this time and there was very little C++ or systems experience in the building. I think it’s expertise they t

You’re definitely warm. I worked at Dropbox around this time and there was very little C++ or systems experience in the building. I think it’s expertise they tried to build but for whatever reason didn’t. I work at Facebook now and the difference is night and day. FB does share a ton of code across platforms, and it doesn’t even feel controversial. I don’t think Dropbox made a mistake in cutting out their shared C++ code, but I would caution against generalizing code sharing as a bad idea.

babesh 7y ago
It was partly organizational imho. Oftentimes non mobile teams would write C++ modules. After writing the module, that team would refocus on server but the module would have remaining hard to find bugs (sometimes due to lack of mobile expertise) or could just use additional love and care. Sometimes these modules needing care and attention were even written by mobile specific teams. These were also due to insufficient organizational attention.