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That's not likely to be the issue here tbh, or, that's focusing on low-hanging fruit. You get large codebases from having many features. No amount of coding and

That's not likely to be the issue here tbh, or, that's focusing on low-hanging fruit. You get large codebases from having many features. No amount of coding and refactoring will bring a codebase's size down in a significant and measurable way unless features are ruthlessly removed.

dilyevsky 3y ago
I mean sure, I could understand Figma's frontend or something having millions of lines but what does linkedin frontend do that would reasonably require this?
- crooked-v 3y ago
  My guess is that it's because there are 800 different versions of everything because none of the company's 13,000 UI/UX designers are willing to use the same component libraries.
  - superhuzza 3y ago
    Blaming 2,000,000 lines of code on UX designers, and not the developers, is certainly a new one.
bluetomcat 3y ago
These high-profile apps are elaborate spying devices. Besides the UI code, they probably have thousands of classes, some of which abandoned as dead code, with names like ProfileViewActivityLocationTracker...