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Would it not be possible to write a good messenger app in say 10,000 lines of code? What are the other hundreds of thousands of lines doing?
by Tycho 3y ago
Would it not be possible to write a good messenger app in say 10,000 lines of code? What are the other hundreds of thousands of lines doing?
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoAnalytics perhaps, then handling “Login with Facebook” buttons in other apps.
- nostromo 3y agoMessenger does a ton of things. It does video calls, voice calls, text messages... you can send money, send gifs, send videos... you can even view Instagram Stories for some fucking reason.
- zamnos 3y agoPedantically, Instagram stories and Facebook stories are two separate things.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoI’d be shocked if they don’t have 10k loc devoted to the status indicator alone. It’s cross user-facing service, cross platform, and notoriously unreliable enough to be a convenient excuse for social inaction (not that I’d know anything about that /s).
- gibolt 3y agoThat is probably mostly handled by a backend service. Client code should be minimal
- zamnos 3y agoimplementing error handling and features