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Re:Why I Don't Want to Learn Go by smanek on Monday March 19, 2012 @08:01AM (#3723498)
That's fair - the largest code bases I've ever worked on are all less than ~200K LOC.

They've enforced style by mandating committers hook a linter into a git pre-commit hook, and compilation time hasn't been a huge problem since the languages always support incremental/partial compilation (Java/Lisp for the most part).

I can imagine that not working at Google-scale.

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Re:Why I Don't Want to Learn Go by adgar on Monday March 19, 2012 @01:11PM (#3724898)
> They've enforced style by mandating committers hook a linter into a git pre-commit hook

Style-related presubmit hooks are a part of every project at Google. Plus readability requirements, etc - style is kept pretty damn consistent.

> compilation time hasn't been a huge problem since the languages always support incremental/partial compilation (Java/Lisp for the most part).

This is the far more interesting problem to solve at scale with a single centralized repository.

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