[bigiain]

And, reductio ad absurdum, you perhaps also need to count those 27 million LOC in Linux too. (Or however many LOC there are in Windows or macOS or whatever other OS is a fundamental "dependency" for your program.)

[genewitch]

Or you could use APE and then all of those LOC go away. APE binaries can boot metal, and run on the big 3 OS from the same file.