Million Lines of Code - Infographic

Posted by nthitz on Monday October 28, 2013 @12:53PM
from the informationisbeautiful.net dept.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by pan69 on Monday October 28, 2013 @03:20PM (#6629160)

How are dependencies such as external libraries counted? Some programming languages will "include" code while others will link "against" external code.

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by techprotocol on Monday October 28, 2013 @02:51PM (#6628974)

Not sure how they measure the lines of code. Are comments, headers, etc included or is it just the the code flow?

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by MDCore on Monday October 28, 2013 @04:38PM (#6629618)

Does an average modern high-end car really have a hundred million lines of code?

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by salehenrahman on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:27PM (#6628308)

The number of LOC is nothing to boast about in my opinion. The simpler your codebase the easier it is to maintain, the easier it is to focus on what actually matters: the end product.

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by stmchn on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:00PM (#6629753)

It also seems quite arbitrary to compare LOC's between all those products. It seems like it would vary greatly depending on the language and other factors (No idea of the metric includes comments/whitespace etc).

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by coldcode on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:25PM (#6628291)

That last one is a hoot.

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by joering2 on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:10PM (#6635762)

Does 60 millions of lines of code of Facebook make sense? I mean I know its a large project with multiple modules, but any ideas why such an enormous codebase?

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by melling on Monday October 28, 2013 @04:28PM (#6629549)

The original Doom was under 50,000 lines of code.

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Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic by bladedtoys on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:30PM (#6628332)

Firefox and Mozilla core are games?

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