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one million lines of Dart code? All this work for displaying ads on the web. Something is not right with this world...
by fs111 12y ago
one million lines of Dart code? All this work for displaying ads on the web. Something is not right with this world...
- ihsw 12y agoHey, it makes the world go 'round. Bash it all you want, it provides a useful service to businesses.
- skybrian 12y ago"Ads" is a short word but it covers a lot of complexity. There different formats for ads, different kinds of ad customers, different places where ads can be displayed, different ways of buying and selling ads, and then you have localization to different countries, etc. There are complex UI's that automatically reconfigure themselves based on the customer's needs. A million lines of code is relatively small when you're trying to be all things to all ads customers in the world. Still, could it be simpler? I hope so.
- lugg 12y agoI read Google Ads as the business unit, not the "displaying ads". I don't really know how anyone would read "Google Ads" and "million lines+" and think wow, all that for banner ads? Alas, I'm writing this and reading the above..
- petercooper 12y agoThey make like $72bn annual revenue off the back of that product though so in terms of revenue per line of code it might not be too bad! :)
- rdtsc 12y agoYou do know that is how Google makes money, rigth? If it doesn't serve ads it doesn't release cool open source projects no self driving cars, no Anjular JS, no google maps, gmail and so on.