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I think something like this, if someone could build it, would be amazing. Essentially, this would bring the benefits of a BigCo monorepo (and all the SWE-time p

I think something like this, if someone could build it, would be amazing. Essentially, this would bring the benefits of a BigCo monorepo (and all the SWE-time performance benefits it has) to the rest of the world. Lots of nice things could come from tech like this being adopted. I don't think it would get mass adoption though. Git+GitHub+$PackageManager is "good enough" and this approach wouldn't be significantly better for every use case.

cxr 3y ago
> Git+GitHub+$PackageManager is "good enough" Weird way to frame it. Surely if that's good enough, then Git + repo host alone, sans package manager, satisfies the same criterion. It didn't/doesn't become more complicated by omitting package managers like npm, cargo, etc., and their associated methodology from the equation. It's the other way around. Adding their package management philosophy/methodology into the fray is strictly more complicated than not. It's extra.