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He is saying an Emacs in Java would be 10x as big.

• kenjackson 16y ago
  So he's saying that a Java version of Emacs would be 10 million lines of code long? That's ridiculously unlikely, unless given to monkeys to code -- and even then incompetent monkeys. This is just wishful thinking.
  • andrewcooke 16y ago
    Eclipse was 18 million lines in 2008 - http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-ganymede-18-million-li http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-ganymede-18-millio... Obviously it's not a direct comparison, but...
    • gphil 16y ago
      Wow, that is the biggest codebase I have ever heard of. Does anyone know of anything bigger than that?