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		gpderetta on Sept 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Greppability is an underrated code metric I worked on codebases large enough where enabling autocomplete/indexing would lock the IDE and cause the workstation to swap hard.

alternatex on Sept 4, 2024 [–]

That's a problem of code organisation though. Large codebases should be split into multiple repos. At the end of the day code structure is not something to be decided only by compilation strategy, but by developer ergonomics as well. A massive repo is a massive burden on productivity.

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