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Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do • DEVCLASS (devclass.com)
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  • Facebook does not use Git due to scale issues with their large monorepo, instead opting for Mercurial.
  • Mercurial may be a better option for large monorepos, but Git has made improvements to support them better.
  • Despite some drawbacks, Git usage remains dominant with 93.87% share, due to familiarity, additional tools, and industry trends.
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The inhouse tooling from the massive tech companies is very cool but I always wonder how that impacts transferrable skills. I work in a much smaller shop but intentionally make tech decisions that will give our engineers a highly transferrable skill set. If someone wants to leave it should be easy to bring their knowledge to bear elsewhere.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Speaking from my own experience and a few other seniors I work with, you try to recreate solutions you like at those smaller shops. It may not be identical, but you know what's possible.

    I came into a company that didn't have a system to manage errors. At my old job, errors would get grouped automatically and work can be prioritized through the groupings. The new company only handled errors when they saw it, by word of mouth.

    Immediately went to work setting up a similar system.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Made easier to use like in when their codebase was leaked and no one had successfully built a game from it?

    in-house tools often encourage making a mess heavily reliant on those tools or working around their limitations, in my experience

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh, it impacts indeed. And I would expect that to be partially to keep the devs from hopping away, as they will have a hard time transferring

    On the other hand, onboarding is longer and wastes more time and money of the company ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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