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Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code
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twitter.com/bhcarpenter
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BryanBeshore
on Oct 30, 2022
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DerekL
on Oct 30, 2022
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Title is misspelled. Should be
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dang
on Oct 31, 2022
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Thanks - we've thanned it now.
TimCTRL
on Oct 30, 2022
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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.
Rebelgecko
on Oct 30, 2022
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At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)
saagarjha
on Oct 30, 2022
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It’s an about even mix of Swift and Objective-C.
diebeforei485
on Oct 30, 2022
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> (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)
Haha.
lost_tourist
on Oct 30, 2022
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Given all the libraries and services that ios provides, how? Did they rewrite all those rather than use what apple provides?
such12
on Oct 30, 2022
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It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?
giuliomagnifico
on Oct 30, 2022
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Other is code to track the users behaviors.
regular
on Oct 30, 2022
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Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.
firemelt
on Oct 31, 2022
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it self explanatory from simple ruby on rails into scala behemoth lmao
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