Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust

Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by James_K on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:51PM (#42122105)

  /tmp/kibi % cloc .
        98 text files.
        89 unique files.
        11 files ignored.

  github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.96  T=0.05 s (1936.6 files/s, 82405.1 lines/s)
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Language                     files          blank        comment           code
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Rust                            15            241            379           1480
  Markdown                         5            179             22            502
  INI                             50              3             20            388
  YAML                            10             36             21            281
  XML                              1              0              1             62
  TOML                             3             10              1             57
  Bourne Shell                     1             13              8             46
  JSON                             2              0              0             31
  Dockerfile                       1              2              0              3
  SVG                              1              0              0              1
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SUM:                            89            484            452           2851
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm not sure if this counts as less than 1024.

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Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by diath on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:14PM (#42122245)

Even though that's 400-ish over, the readme states:

   1.: Counted per platform, excluding tests and Clippy directives, see count_loc.sh

However, I personally feel like it's a stupid metric anyway because that doesn't count dependencies (although kibi specifically seems to have minimal dependencies), and at some point you could simply abstract your code away into a library and use it as a dependency to prune some lines from the codebase.

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Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by James_K on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:54AM (#42125257)

It also excludes tests, which is how they reach such a low number. It seems they are trying to count the number of lines actually used in the executable. I can't see the value in this metric. If they want to talk about executable size, they should just use that. If they want to talk about the complexity of maintaining their project, then surely you must count all lines because those still make the project harder to maintain. I guess they're trying to measure the logical complexity of the final result, but I can't for the life of me think why a user or developer would care about this.

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Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by t14n on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:09PM (#42122211)

There are some OS specific files (unix.rx, windows.rs, etc) that you can discount (imo).

If you really wanted to codegolf the repo, I'm sure you can make it literally <1024 lines.

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Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by chimen on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:07PM (#42122203)

hey! it's "written in rust"

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Re:Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, wri... by blastonico on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:24AM (#42125860)

hehe, for some reason "written in rust" is becoming a trademark

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