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I assume the GP meant "scale of codebase complexity" – which is orthogonal to whether something is "web scale" (ie. everything Google does).

• creyes 7y ago
  Isn't the Google codebase infamously a monorepo with billions of loc? That seems like it fits "scale of codebase complexity" as well as "web scale"
  • jcranmer 7y ago
    Yes, but much (if not most) of that codebase is in C++.
  • munificent 7y ago
    It's a monolithic repo, but not a monolithic codebase. It contains many many separate projects, libraries, and applications. There's a lot of code reuse, but it's not like you have to wrap your head around the whole thing.
  • jimbokun 7y ago
    How do you check out a project like that?