Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

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Post by BryanBeshore » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 6:59 PM UTC

Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code
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#2

Post by such12 » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 7:11 PM UTC

It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?

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Post by giuliomagnifico » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

such12 wrote: post #2

It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?

Other is code to track the users behaviors.

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Post by lost_tourist » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

Given all the libraries and services that ios provides, how? Did they rewrite all those rather than use what apple provides?

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Post by TimCTRL » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.

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Post by regular » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

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Post by DerekL » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 8:42 PM UTC

Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.

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Post by Rebelgecko » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

TimCTRL wrote: post #5

Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.

At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

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Post by saagarjha » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #8

TimCTRL wrote: post #5

Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.

At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

It’s an about even mix of Swift and Objective-C.

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Post by diebeforei485 » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 9:26 PM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #8

TimCTRL wrote: post #5

Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.

At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

> (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

Haha.