[013a]

And its powered by Node and V8, so we've got another 500,000 lines of code there. Ah, but those are actually written in C++, so we need LLVM, another million lines there. And a rendering engine for the frontend, Chrome, Firefox, etc. Microcode in the processor responsible for executing assembly instructions?

So, what number do we actually care about? You chose to be pedantic and you didn't go far enough. How about, instead, we care more about how much I have to write to achieve what they say I can; 18 lines.

[icebraining]

There's nothing pedantic about what I wrote. When people say software X has Y lines of code, they're always talking about the code written specifically for that program.

In fact, if it was clear that it was configuration lines, it wouldn't be a good title, because it's not particularly impressive: for example in Wordpress you just need to change 4 lines of wp-config.php to start using it.

[erquhart]

Odd that this and other comments in favor of the article are being systematically down voted.

[yodon]

Please don’t run around seeing conspiracies when a more likely explanation is that there are non-trivial numbers of people who hold opinions different from what you expect.

[erquhart]

Shouldn't have said "systematic", didn't mean to insinuate a collaborative effort. Silently down voting is what I'm pointing out, as it tends to be non constructive, I don't think I'll ever get used to that.

That said, my comment was ultimately pointless and I regret making it, agreed.