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by dirtyaura 3185 days ago
Builds are run on servers, using Blaze: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257000
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What about editing? Do you mount a network drive to edit files on your computer?
Roughly that, although it uses a Google-developed internal tool. Source code files can be transferred to one's workstation (which lives in a Google building), but not to one's laptop—all work on a laptop must be done through a remote session, either SSH, VNC, or via a (again Google-internal/proprietary) cloud-based editor.
Google uses FUSE extensively. Basically there are a bunch of daemons that make the various cloud source repositories look like a local disk.
But even those aren't allowed to be mounted to your corp laptop. Those clients can only be mounted on a workstation unless you are doing iOS development.
There's also several options for purely online editing (devving on a Chromebook isn't bad)