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Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

by BryanBeshore on 10/30/22, 6:59 PM with 11 comments

  • by DerekL on 10/30/22, 8:42 PM

    Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.
  • by TimCTRL on 10/30/22, 8:00 PM

    Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.
  • by lost_tourist on 10/30/22, 7:44 PM

    Given all the libraries and services that ios provides, how? Did they rewrite all those rather than use what apple provides?
  • by such12 on 10/30/22, 7:11 PM

    It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?
  • by regular on 10/30/22, 8:07 PM

    Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.
  • by firemelt on 10/31/22, 3:46 PM

    it self explanatory from simple ruby on rails into scala behemoth lmao