Why “Mononoke” is being discussed
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This is very similar to the way SCMQuery existed before Mononoke and eventually became served by it. The source control team at Meta was, and is, quite familiar with hybrid depl…
by sunshowers · Oct 17, 2026
So, if I follow this correctly, Mononoke is a Facebook project. Facebook, now Meta, is widely known to be a company that steals stuff and doesn't give attribution. The issue, fu…
by jasonlotito · Oct 16, 2026
> ... back when Google built their version of this it wasn't possible for a team of seven to use LLMs to build a new custom implementation in five months... A quick look around…
by simoncion · Oct 16, 2026
Open source Mononoke and EdenFS don’t really work outside of Meta. I looked into it some years ago for a large monorepo, determined it wouldn’t work, and shelved it. If I had a…
by fcarraldo · Oct 15, 2026
Milking this fake drama for all it's worth huh? Good to know you , the authority on the subject, believe it's sufficient now. As if attributing Sapling didn't include its server…
by Mawr · Oct 15, 2026
Yes, dishonesty. Flaunting this great technical achievement of their Mighty Labor Arbitrage Machine when it would have been impossible for them to have done without Mononoke alr…
by pmbauer · Oct 15, 2026
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Mononoke are vengeful spirits (onryō), dead spirits (shiryō), live spirits (ikiryō), or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess individuals and make them suffer, cause disease, or even cause death. It is also a word sometimes used to refer to yōkai or henge. Read more on Wikipedia