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Google3 is a huge codebase of high quality that moves exceptionally quickly, so it just seems like your priors are getting in the way. Complaining that a large-
by jeffbee 3y ago
Google3 is a huge codebase of high quality that moves exceptionally quickly, so it just seems like your priors are getting in the way. Complaining that a large-scale change among tens of thousands of software developers requires a tool (Rosie) is sort of the same thing as all those people who complain that it's too hard to cope with having millions of machines in prod, i.e. the type of people who wash out of the company in a few months and then go on to a career of complaining about it online.
- marcinzm 3y agoThe same applies to Facebook which is their comparison and not some random 10 person startup.
- jeffbee 3y agoExcept Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller.
- tallowen 3y agoWhat makes you say that Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller?
- dilyevsky 3y agoFb had 100 million loc in 2019[0] while google already had 2 billion[1] [0] -https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zoncolan-static-analysis-tool/ https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zoncolan-static-analysi... [1] - https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
- ot 3y agoThat's an apples-and-oranges comparisons, 100M is just the size of the frontend/middleware code (Hack), while 2B includes everything, including configuration and generated code.