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> To some people, that's big, and to many, it's not. This boggles my mind, so I have to ask, who considers a million lines of code in a code base not a large p
by kbenson 8y ago
> To some people, that's big, and to many, it's not.
This boggles my mind, so I have to ask, who considers a million lines of code in a code base not a large project? I mean, sure there are plenty of projects larger than that, but when considering whether a project is large or not, I think I would consider a million lines of code well into the "large" category.
- steveklabnik 8y agoAs with most things, people's experience is colored by their previous experience. There are people who work on 10MM LOC codebases that say "oh well you don't even have one of those", or for example, take Google's C++ codebase, which last I saw is estimated at something like 2 billion lines? Yes, that's a bunch of small projects, but since it's in a monorepo and uses one big build system, to people thinking about scale, they consider it one, or so I've heard. Add in a general sense of bragging rights, and well, I've heard people say "call me when you have a real project" about more absurd (to me) things than just this in the past...