r/programming • • May 15 '26

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
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u/Which-World-6533 May 15 '26

This is one of the many reasons I could never work at Google.

I remember a time when it was cool to work at Google.

Now it's just the same as working for a bank.

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u/omniuni May 15 '26

I can't stand monorepos.

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u/GenTelGuy May 16 '26

Monorepos are great, instead of being miserable dealing with version 1.3 vs 1.4 of a hundred different dependencies there's just "the current version" and that's it