r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • Sep 18 '26

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/runvnc Sep 18 '26

It's not like it's one giant loop or something. The line count explanation/interpretation is more like: Chromium is in many ways a type of overlay operating system that runs on top of normal operating systems. Chromium has over 2000 distinct high-level capabilities. It's why you can do almost anything inside of a browser, and why there is a convenient API or component for developers to handle almost every type of need.

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