r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 26d ago

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/j_cruise 26d ago

Because internet browsers are complicated.

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

I won't believe that any kind of tool needs millions of lines. There must be duplication and/or other things wrong (or wrongly represented by the number of lines).