Those billions of lines belong to lots of separate, unrelated projects. They also include things like configuration and test code.
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They don't though. The dependency graphs are partially overlapping for all the build outputs, but any given one doesn't pull in everything (or even remotely close to it).
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You said "if they contribute to the compiled binary", and the whole point
@nicebyte was making is that they don't.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @ssylvan @Jonathan_Blow and
I love the implication that Jon doesn't know that all billion lines of code don't compile to a single executable. What is wrong with everyone? What linker do you think Jon believes they are using?? They'd launch LLD and six years later they'd have their binary.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
No, the implication is that he's making a deliberately misleading argument, not that he actually believes that "***BILLIONS***" LOC across all projects is a meaningful measure w.r.t. software complexity (which would indeed require an implausibly poor understanding of software).
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Replying to @ssylvan @cmuratori and
If you dump all your games in one repo, they don't magically get more complex. He obviously understands that, and yet that's basically the argument he's making here, which is at the very least disingenuous.
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What are you talking about? He didn't even STATE an argument! YOU made an argument for him, and then said it was disingenuous. You could have instead assumed he was smart and took the plausible argument of "an organization with a billion plus lines of code is in trouble".
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This is why Twitter is such a pile of shit. People post very reasonable things (like hey maybe you should consider a billion lines of code as too many lines of code for an organization to manage) and then the mosquitoes pile on with a bunch of unrelated crap.
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The end result will presumably just be not hearing from Jon at all at some point, because why bother? Which is mostly the tact I've been taking. And probably should take more often.
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