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TIL most big techs are radically on the monorepo side
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ddplf szmer.info ddplf@szmer.info
Joined: 2024-08-08
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Entire google ecosystem is over 80TB of code, 2 billions LoC. On one single repository.
Same goes to facebook. Windows' monorepo is 300GB of code.

And that's just scratching the surface. They just keep reinventing every single tool or framework because appearently no one fucking knows how to git init.

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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Source? on the info, not the source code. unless????

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RamRabbit lemmy.world RamRabbit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-11-16
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On the other end of the spectrum: javascript devs widely use a package to tell you if an integer is even. And another one to tell you if the integer is odd; a package with over half a million weekly downloads.

I fucking hate the Javascript ecosystem and developer attitude.

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kibblebits quokk.au kibblebits@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-05-19
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Yeah I’m gonna need a source too.

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ryathal sh.itjust.works ryathal@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-16
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The monorepo is more about dependency management. It's a bigger hurdle at sufficient size to ensure everything is the right version then have a slightly unorthodox repo.

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chaospatterns lemmy.world chaospatterns@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
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And Amazon doesn't use monorepos. Windows is only one product that Microsoft offers.

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TootSweet lemmy.world TootSweet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
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On one single repository.

Do they still use Repo? If so, whether it really qualifies as "one single repository" is a bit open to interpretation.

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hexagonwin lemmy.today hexagonwin@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-02-07
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Source? on the info, not the source code. unless????

google's case is quite famous tho.

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