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by tombert 1 day ago
Yeah, I guess I always just found it miserable to work on.

When I worked at a BigCo [1], our project was a big monorepo in Java which had 60,000 folders, and I don't remember how many files. It was decidedly no fun to work on, because everything was spread across a million files and so doing anything required sifting through dozens or even hundreds of files. I hated it.

I've worked on giant projects since then, but they've been written in more modern Java and they are less painful.

[1] It's not hard to find the specific one through my history but I politely ask you do not post it in reply to this post.