Dan Luu

IME it's much easier to use external dependencies at Google (monorepo) than at MS (highly fragmented repos)

Using external dependencies on my team at Microsoft is as easy as install-package foo /cc @housecor

of the 14 package managers we have, which does your team use? :P

nuget @housecor

My old team had to manually break up packages because the time to uncompress a package was somehow O(n^2)

With nuget, some packages we depended on would take multiple hours to use because of that

Nuget packages are zip files with different extension. Not sure why decompression would be an issue

Yeah this was in Azure. We figured that someone wrote a custom decompressor since no off-the-shelf thing would do that.