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What makes you say that Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller?
by tallowen 3y ago
What makes you say that Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller?
- dilyevsky 3y agoFb had 100 million loc in 2019[0] while google already had 2 billion[1] [0] -https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zoncolan-static-analysis-tool/ https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zoncolan-static-analysi... [1] - https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
- ot 3y agoThat's an apples-and-oranges comparisons, 100M is just the size of the frontend/middleware code (Hack), while 2B includes everything, including configuration and generated code.