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by nickpsecurity 3548 days ago
To put that into perspective, the Squeak interpreter for the gold standard of OOP languages, Smalltalk, was about 3951loc of Smalltalk for logic to handle language and 1681loc of C for OS interface. A lightweight scheme for dependency injection took them more loc to express than a whole Smalltalk interpreter. And to hack around bad OOP or tooling in the first place.

This might not mean anything. It just jumped out in my brain for some reason.