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by pnathan 5273 days ago
Project complexity tends to scale exponentially-ish, so I was wondering what you considered "Largest codebases"... according to Googling, Windows is 50M, Android 12M. So a couple million LoC is pretty awesome.

Static typing evangelists seem to have a blind spot: they persistently tend to assert that you can't write good and large dynamic codebases.
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kls 5273 days ago
Windows is 50M, Android 12M

IIRC in webOS a substantial portion of the user-land utilizes JavaScript, as a whole one could surmise that they constitute modular parts of an overall system. I do not know what the TLoc on webOS is, but I would assume that it would have to be in the ball park of large. I think it is as valid as the total line count of windows or android it is also the problem with looking at these things from just a TLoc perspective.

Static typing evangelists seem to have a blind spot: they persistently tend to assert that you can't write good and large dynamic codebases.

Thanks you probably summed up my post better than I did.

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jiggy2011 5272 days ago
You can , if you have good communication or a small team.

I have a PHP Project that is about ~200Kloc , ok that's not enormous (and it's about 60% boilerplate) and I can maintain it happily enough but I wouldn't want to let a large team loose on that.

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