That same app written in 17kloc of objective c code would be significantly smaller. The reason why it's small is because it just doesn't have a lot of code. Mo

That same app written in 17kloc of objective c code would be significantly smaller. The reason why it's small is because it just doesn't have a lot of code. Most these fat apps have already done all the other easy crap specified in the article. The author knows that all the other apps are at least 500kloc of code minimum, he worked at twitter. All other things being equal, a swift app is much larger. The article also is just talking about binary sizes, not about all the other graphical assets.