Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code (opens in new tab)

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21 pointsBryanBeshore3y ago11 comments

11 comments

Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.

dang3y ago

Thanks - we've thanned it now.

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.

Rebelgecko3y ago

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

saagarjha3y ago

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

diebeforei4853y ago

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

Haha.

lost_tourist3y ago

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

such123y ago

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

giuliomagnifico3y ago

Other is code to track the users behaviors.

regular3y ago

Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

firemelt3y ago

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

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