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Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by renesd on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:10AM (#14662561)
They don't need to back it up. It is up to the person making the original claim to back it up.

There's half a century of research and practice into this topic. Anyone in the industry _should_ know about this. Anyone who doesn't can find it on a search engine within 30 seconds.

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Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by Retric on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:13AM (#14662579)
No, it's a well known problem. The old lines of code joke still applies. You can introduce metrics, but those will just be gamed because software is a multidimensional optimization problem with complex trade offs. So, you can't translate that to a single measurement and call it productivity.
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Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by renesd on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:21AM (#14662616)
Yes, it's a well known problem.
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Re:We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better by AndrewDucker on Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:47AM (#14662795)
There's half a century of research - and yet, no clear way of measuring productivity, that I am aware of.

If you're aware of one then a link to an article about it, or even a wikipedia page, would be awesome.

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