Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Silhouette 5074 days ago
Could you, off the top of your head, give a rough idea of what cyclomatic complexity or Halstead complexity corresponds to a "large" project? In fact, given even a very simple code snippet, could you state on a cursory examination what these complexity values would be? Could most people reading this discussion?

If not, your alternatives don't serve the required purpose. Everyone gets that a project with 10 million lines of code is big. Whether it's bigger in any useful sense than another project of 8 million lines isn't really the point, and any alternative that doesn't have an immediate intuition for people reading the discussion isn't helping much.