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Not at all being idealistic, this is a hard problem. But if we're really going to compare stuff.. Systemd alone is over 1 million lines. Probably X/Wayland as
by recuter 4y ago
Not at all being idealistic, this is a hard problem.
But if we're really going to compare stuff.. Systemd alone is over 1 million lines. Probably X/Wayland as well. And the not-slim QT is probably going to end up over 1 million lines soon enough. There is a reason why this slim version exists.
That's at least two orders of magnitude difference in complexity. Maybe there's no getting around it but one has got to wonder whether things went horribly wrong somewhere.
- robinsonb5 4y agoOh they definitely went horribly wrong somewhere. And I suspect that shared sense is the reason so many alternative, niche, minimalist and retro projects are springing up. Personally I'm keeping a close eye on Haiku and SerenityOS as potential ports in the storm of ever-taller Jenga towers of dependencies and complexity...
- Rochus 4y agoWell, to be fair Qt Core, Gui and Widgets can du much more than ST-80; there are more platform abstractions, things like threads and unicode, more and more powerful widgets, more powerful font and 2d drawing, etc.; it's not just the same functionality with a different number of SLOC. For the people who are comfortable with even less, it's worth comparing it to the 1991 Ceres Oberon System, which has less than 14 kSLOC including the compiler and TUI.