Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code

Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code(twitter.com)

21 points by BryanBeshore 3 years ago | 11 comments

DerekL 3 years ago |

Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.

dang 3 years ago | |

Thanks - we've thanned it now.

TimCTRL 3 years ago |

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.

Rebelgecko 3 years ago | |

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

saagarjha 3 years ago | | |

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

diebeforei485 3 years ago | | |

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

Haha.

lost_tourist 3 years ago |

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

such12 3 years ago |

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

giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | |

Other is code to track the users behaviors.

regular 3 years ago |

Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

firemelt 3 years ago |

it self explanatory from simple ruby on rails into scala behemoth lmao