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It's not limited to commercial code... Lots of codebases for complex applications are substantially large. Often the translation files filled with strings alon
by davidu 16y ago
It's not limited to commercial code... Lots of codebases for complex applications are substantially large. Often the translation files filled with strings alone will be 50% of it.
- cookiecaper 16y agoWell, the Linux kernel source code is around 71MB compressed, I'd guess maybe 200MB uncompressed. That's quite a difference in source code size, and I think that the same is true with most OSS projects. The WINE project for instance is also < 100MB for the full (huge and extensive, including translation) source. I think that commercial codebases just end up with a lot of cruft and nobody ever feels like cleaning them up (plus, there is incentive for keeping things a bit clunky as it buys slack-off time and/or extra hourly pay). As above, I also think they use other commercial/crappy components like third-party widgets that had the same treatment, so it all snowballs into a huge/unwieldy thing.