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"One of the biggest traps for smart engineers is optimizing something that shouldn't exist."

Elon Musk.

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Let's make the snarky comment into a helpful comment. Why do you think it shouldn't exist?

Monorepos create more issues than what they solve.

Supporting evidence?

The Wikipedia article about monorepos has a good summary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo

Then you can do your own opinion, I'm sharing mine.

Apart from performance issues that article offers more (and more significant) advantages than it does drawbacks, so it really does not support your statement.

That's completely false. Monorepos don't really create issues at all when done properly, and when used in situations where they make sense.

In smaller scales, for example, they're fantastic for productivity, and my company is not looking back.

So the Linux devs have no idea how to properly use Git?

I'm not sure whether the Linux kernel git repository qualifies as a Monorepo.

Of course it does. It includes core kernel code, drivers, countless libraries (compression libraries, fonts, a unit testing framework, various data structure implemetations, and many many others), file systems, network stacks, a programming language runtime+compiler (ebpf), and many other subsystems.

According to multi-repo advocates, it would obviously be split up into at least a dozen different repos, with dependency management tools to specify which version of zlib or ebpf to use, with a dedicated repo just for the build logic, of course.

Such as? That's just parroting “common opinion” otherwise.

The second paragraph of the article we are discussing about for example.

But you can find a list on Wikipedia and make your own opinion : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo

This is no different from saying "monorepo bad". Aside from performance issues in git, why would a monorepo be bad? It seems very natural to me to have a whole system referenced with a single branch/tag that must all pass CI together. Otherwise supporting projects can introduce breaking changes downstream that are not apparent before they hit master.

Somehow its working for google? May be im wrong but last I heard they use mono repos.

And then he comes up with Hyperloop.

Wow, so he's actually said something smart for a change.

Was he talking about something specific?

I remember him saying something like that during a walkthrough of the base building starship and if I recall it was in reference to overengineering something about the grid fins.

He was talking about the battery vibrator plates or something in Tesla cars.

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