Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by AnotherGoodName on Friday June 28, 2024 @06:58PM (#40826228)

Same and another vote for meta. Meta made the language fit their use case. Go into bootcamp change the search bar text to ‘this is a search bar!’ press F5 and see the change (just don’t ship that change ;D). It’s incredibly smooth and easy.

Googles a mess. There’s always a migration to the latest microservices stack that have been taking years and will take many more years to come.

Like meta just changed the damn language they work in to fit their needs and moved on. Google rewrites everything to fit the language. The former method is better in a large codebase. Meta is way easier to get shit done to the point that google was left in the dust last time they competed with meta.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by quicklime on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:23PM (#40827435)

I think what you're saying is true for www, but not fbcode, and the later starts to look a lot like google3. I agree though, Meta's www codebase has the best developer experience in the industry.

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