Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

https://twitter.com/bhcarpenter/status/1585834343766773761

by BryanBeshore • 4 years ago

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such12• 4 years ago

It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?

giuliomagnifico• 4 years ago

Other is code to track the users behaviors.

lost_tourist• 4 years ago

Given all the libraries and services that ios provides, how? Did they rewrite all those rather than use what apple provides?

TimCTRL• 4 years ago

Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.

Rebelgecko• 4 years ago

At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

saagarjha• 4 years ago

It’s an about even mix of Swift and Objective-C.

diebeforei485• 4 years ago

(based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

Haha.

regular• 4 years ago

Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

DerekL• 4 years ago

Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.

dang• 4 years ago

Thanks - we've thanned it now.

firemelt• 4 years ago

it self explanatory from simple ruby on rails into scala behemoth lmao

Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

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