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by Viliam1234 1884 days ago
This is about company culture, not the programming language. When someone breaks their API and someone else's code stops working as a consequence, will the first person get told to fix their API, or will the second person get told to fix their application?

Some companies may have a consistent policy about this, in other companies it may depend on which team happens to have more political power.

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At least during my time there nobody was introducing breaking (at compile time) api changes wily-nily. What did happen was people would deprecate (or “sunset” as pms loved to call it) a runtime api that ppl depended on - i.e shutting down some servers. So splitting the monorepo would do nothing here unless you’re willing to run those services yourself.