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That's factually untrue. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb all have a huge monorepo. Splitting it out is obviously not necessary with the right tools
by exitheone 4y ago
That's factually untrue. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb all have a huge monorepo. Splitting it out is obviously not necessary with the right tools.
- williamsmj 4y agoNo. Twitter absolutely has multiple repos. Some of them are very big, but they certainly have more than one. Why they have > 1 repo is a long story, but the post you're responding to is in the ballpark.
- jeffbee 4y agoGoogle at least has separate repos for the linux kernel and android, and probably others (chrome/os/ium?). The hugeness of google3 is not in doubt, but the mono-ness may be.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoAnd FB have multiple, really, really large monorepos.
- benreesman 4y agoSo there was a (I hope flattering) joke behind Simpkins’ back that anyone of his broad-spectrum superiority, as he’s both a world-class hacker and conventionally handsome and consistently articulate that he must be carrying a “lizard”. His nickname was “the Iguana”. He spent a lot of time optimizing ‘hg’, and one assumes that the Iguana did what could be done.
- benreesman 4y agoAs someone who spent a decade at FB I can assure you that we had as few monorepos as possible. No more, no less. The danger with mouthing off on HN is that this place is thick as thieves with people who actually do or did what the bloggers whinge on about. Though in this case, the blogger has worked at all three of MS, Google, and Twitter, so I wouldn’t be quick to disregard him either.
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