Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

  • Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

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